Version, Version Version!!!???

geoschmo · #1 May 18th, 2002, 03:30 PM

Gil,

Unfortunatly our UI/Browser guy is out of town for a few days and can't be reaached. I tried downloading Communicator 4.5 to see if I could access the site. It seemed to work the first couple times, but now it's hanging up.

Perhaps when Lazarus returns he can tell you something more constructive, but I do know that some browser Versions just don't work. We are a free site run by volunteers and supported by donations. Even some large commercial websites have browser incompatability issues. That's just the way it is unfortunatly when you have competing browsers that are hoistile to each other the way MS and Netscape are.

Geoschmo
PBW Admin Team

eorg · #2 May 18th, 2002, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dogscoff:
I use Opera 6 (free Version). PBW works fine, although some other websites do give me trouble (for example, I can't change my avatar on this site=-(

i didn't have problem with opera & avatars too :-) try to accept pop-up i always forgot them off

Edit: opera is 2 or 3 mb without java (javascript still enabled)

[ May 18, 2002, 15:05: Message edited by: georgig ]

capnq · #3 May 19th, 2002, 11:29 PM

As I mentioned in our e-mail discussion about this, PBW's old text-based UI gets along with older Versions of Netscape much better than the new graphics-heavy UI does.

DirectorTsaarx · #4 June 3rd, 2002, 04:09 PM

A little off-topic, but I've taken to using IE to view the Shrapnel homepage, along with most of the webcomics I read on a daily basis. The problem is almost always with Java/Javascript; the biggest offender is pop-up and pop-under (especially those !#$^!#^ pop-under ads). Almost every time a pop-under ad appears, Netscape (Version 4.6, I think) hangs, and the only way to fix is exiting Netscape, going to Task Manager, and killing the extra Netscape process. So I've all but given up and use the Bill Gates monopoly-approved browser for most things now.

I used Opera a couple years ago, but I don't want to install it at work & my girlfriend would rather use IE, so until I have room for multiple computers at home, I'm stuck with IE...