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Topic: Film-Tech's Friendly Browser & Browsers That Should Be Friendly!
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-27-2001 07:16 PM
I use IE 5.0 on my iMac. I have very few problems with this forum. What few I do have are solved by refreshing the page most of the time.The only thing that "bugs" me is that when you are cliking the "next newest topic" link and you get to the top of the list, the pop-up menu that lets you jump to the next forum doesn't work. There are no choices in the menu. It's been this way for a while, now. It's not an IE problem, per se because I use IE on a windows laptop, too. It doesn't have that problem. If you don't like the size or font of your browser's default display, why don't you change it? It's under EDIT>PREFERENCES... Then chose the "Language/Font" option and change the settings. I have no problem with my fonts. They all default to 96dpi, instead of the usual Mac 72dpi. Maybe that's your problem?
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Scott Norwood
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Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-27-2001 10:18 PM
Netscape 6 is a piece of junk. Mozilla shows some promise, however, but it's still very much in beta and seems pretty slow to me.
My own take on things is this: web pages should be coded to the W3C http://www.w3.org specs. Period. The browser is responsible for interpreting the code. If the code is valid, then it should render properly. Sure, some browsers are horribly broken and some implement features that others don't, but it's hard to go totally wrong if you follow the HTML specs and don't try to implement any of the "bleeding edge" features.
Further, web sites should be at least usable without the need for Java, Javascript, Flash, or any other plug-in software. That's not to say that these things don't serve a purpose, but rather that the site should still be usable without them, if not as pretty or slick. Also, low-bandwidth connections should be considered, as such users often turn off auto-downloading of images, etc.
Personally, I use Lynx http://lynx.browser.org/ most of the time. It's a text-only browser that is super-fast; everyone used it circa 1994/95, but now not many still do. Even on this DSL connection, I can get information several times faster with Lynx than with anything else. When I want to look at pictures or have to deal with sites that don't work in Lynx (damn them!), I use Netscape 4.7something, which works fine. I normally use Solaris and, while there _is_ a version of MSIE for Solaris, I've never managed to get it to work (not that I've tried very hard, though).
I really don't like MSIE myself, and won't use it even on a Win32 machine. I admit, though, that this is mostly for philosophical reasons. I can totally understand that it might well be the best available browser software, but I won't use it because I don't like the whole idea of the browser being inextricably linked to the OS and I have "issues" with Mr. Bill's unethical business practices.
Not that I like Netscape, either. They're the company that started the whole "this page is Netscape-enhanced!" thing several years ago and introduced a bunch of proprietary non-standard HTML tags that did cool things but which didn't conform to the spec and were a major threat to the whole idea of the web as being a platform-independent mechanism for distributing information.
Sorry for the rant...
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, yes i understand Brad does not want us to steal the pictures from the site with out asking, i have no problem with that,....but i wanted to post a message and put in a link into my message, but was told the function was disable. 
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