Browsers are a big pile of ****.

[Richard Lockwood]

If you want a hand, you know where I am.

:-)

R.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik Rx" <hw at CY-B.ORG>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Browsers are a big pile of ****.


> Hey...
>
> Yepz AOL is indeed the spawn of Satan, and Nettley 6 definitely seems to
> have lost the plot along the way.....
>
> But the plot thickens further.....
>
> We have enough probs already coding stuff for sites that ask us to include
> java/flash/etc in their pages, as we have to to build in browser sniffers
> for about 20 combinations of brows/plat/opsys. And test each combo... oh
> joy. (some sites have several thousand pages) What makes it even harder is
> where different versions of the major browsers even render stuff however
> they feel like it... One slip of the HTML and a companies corporate
homepage
> looks like a jackson pollock on some systems.....
>
> We're updating the MC site at the moment, and we stuck in some natty Java
> applets here and there (with grillions of autofilters for 'no whizzbang /
> plain text users' before people moan - you know who you are!), but what do
> our friends at micro$oft do? - release their latest browser without the
Java
> engine built in. Oh how we laughed. So they expect everyone to do the 6mb
> download shuffle eh..... oh yeah, the average joe/josephine public are
> really  gonna  do that in a hurry.... so here we go a re-coding...
>
> AAAAAAArrrrrggghhhhh........
>
> Rx
>
>
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>
> >> > AOL uses IE, which on my machine is the 'default browser'...
> >
> >AOL?  That's a virus isn't it?  Delivery method - through the letterbox.
> >How it works - people put it in the CD drive.  It then proceeds to f***
up
> >the host machine completely.
> >
> >Ironic that AOL use a version of IE as their default browser, given that
> >they own Nutscrape.
> >
>