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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Quote: Kimmo, under what circumstances would you bother printing a page that tells you not to use IE? I thought that we were talking in general. |
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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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What was that about? This thread going waaay off-topic? What's on topic for this thread? I've read your massive first post but please summarize it a bit as I am confused. |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: Of course I identify as MSIE (which UA string is far from clean). In that case don't complain that a site detects Opera as MSIE. Quote: The point of this is that certain lame sites don't let non-MSIE browsers in. There are also sites (more, I've heard - but they've never bothered me) that complain if you don't use MSIE. Deal with it. Quote: You're supposed to embed links in sentences. "Go learn more about alternatives" would be a fine link in this case. It's like seperating presentation from structure (like with HTML and CSS). Generally true, but in this case, I don't think it's something to get worked up about. |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Quote: I've read your massive first post but please summarize it a bit as I am confused. Makin' a gaming news portal with news and articles about the gaming industry. Looking for authors around the world who want to work in their free time when they feel like doing it (for free). The work would include posting news when I'm asleep and writing articles (preferarly regularly). The only demands I have are that the people who want to join know how to write and know a thing or two about the videogaming world. Quote: There are also sites (more, I've heard - but they've never bothered me) that complain if you don't use MSIE. Deal with it.
Isn't that what I just said myself? |
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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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Quote: Makin' a gaming news portal with news and articles about the gaming industry. Looking for authors around the world who want to work in their free time when they feel like doing it (for free).
So the authors will work as your slaves and all profit goes to you? Sounds attractive! |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Quote: So the authors will work as your slaves and all profit goes to you? Sounds attractive! Do you see me carrying around bags with dollar signs on them? I'd LOVE to be able to pay authors, but this is simply not possible. The real slave is me, though, who will be doing most of the work with contents anyway, and who codes the whole sh!t. Surely not everyone who knows how to write and likes videogames will want to make their own site about it. |
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HoHo
Member #4,534
April 2004
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Quote: The point of this is that certain lame sites don't let non-MSIE browsers in. Funny thing is that I have not seen any useful site that requires the use of IE. Could you show me one where not using IE wouldn't allow me to use it (e.g for reading stuff). During the last 2y I've only found one site: the msdn subscribers page where one can download their stuff. I cold browse it with FF but not download. I think because the site is made by MS it doesn't really count for much. [edit] Quote: Surely not everyone who knows how to write and likes videogames will want to make their own site about it. Of course they don't, they just use some of the preexisting ones that everyone know already __________ |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Quote: Of course they don't, they just use some of the preexisting ones that everyone know already Good luck getting into those teams. |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Opera reports as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50" when set up as IE, so you could detect for Opera first and then MSIE second. HoHo: my bank (Bank of America) checks for MSIE or Netscape/FireFox and blocks all others. Report as MSIE, then Opera works fine. They obviously have never heard of Opera, nor do they have a clue what their site even does. |
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X-G
Member #856
December 2000
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Quote: ...and who codes the whole sh!t. ... yet you refuse to do the very thing that would get you out of this. Marvellous. -- |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Quote: yet you refuse to do the very thing that would get you out of this. Marvellous.
I would expect this crap from many others, but from YOU? |
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HoHo
Member #4,534
April 2004
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Of course they don't, they just use some of the preexisting ones that everyone know already sorry, I misunderstood. Quote: HoHo: my bank (Bank of America) checks for MSIE or Netscape/FireFox and blocks all others. Too bad then. By the name I would think its the biggest in US but I might be wrong. Anyway its quite stupid for them to do it but I think it takes quite a lot of persons to persuade them to allow using of other browsers. Here in Estonia we have much better situation. My bank (SEB Estonia Unibank) has even especially crafted version for text based browsers and it is actually useable and looks nice. [edit] fixed wording __________ |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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OR they could just follow Web standards. When you think in terms of "supporting browsers", you're "out taking a ride on the bicycle". |
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Bruce Perry
Member #270
April 2000
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You have to support a set of browsers. You can't make your site work everywhere just by following standards. Maybe it would work out if you restricted yourself to very basic HTML, but anything more complex and you are going to run into differences, standard noncompliance and headaches. -- |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Sigh. Alright... I really don't feel like talking about this one more time. I've had this discussion five billion times, and it's totally off-topic to this thread. |
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Felipe Maia
Member #6,190
September 2005
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Quote: Forums: Off-Topic Ordeals: You're suposed to get off-topic in here, actually, there's nothing on-topic here, except some dumb flame wars about browsers. Does it really matter which browser you're using? Quote: OMG, his website says I'm in IE... Well, his website is up and running and doing good... |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Quote: You're suposed to get off-topic in here, actually, there's nothing on-topic here You do realize that we're inside a thread, right? |
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Jonny Cook
Member #4,055
November 2003
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Quote: You're suposed to get off-topic in here, actually, there's nothing on-topic here Umm, actually, Off-Topic ordeals is referring to the topic of Allegro. It's not suggesting that threads shouldn't follow concrete topics. The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. |
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Felipe Maia
Member #6,190
September 2005
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I'm not that stupid. |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Felipe Maia: Sigh. What are you talking about? Are you one of those who like to say random things to piss of thread authors so that the thread becomes a flamewar instead of what it was intended to be? |
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Derezo
Member #1,666
April 2001
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Heh, I think you just proved his point. Again, he's right. You don't seem to like it when other people are right and their point is negative. "He who controls the stuffing controls the Universe" |
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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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Quote: Do you see me carrying around bags with dollar signs on them? I'd LOVE to be able to pay authors, but this is simply not possible. I understand, it was a point to my comment though. If people realize that this is your attempt to make money their enthusiasm to work for free will decrease. If you create a site, I could possibly review Soldat as I think that it deserves the attention. My engagement would end there though. |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Hmm... I have the feeling that certain people would get things better if they actually read the original post. |
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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I have. And it still says "Work for me for free so I can make money off you". -- |
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Anonymous
Member #3,724
July 2003
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Quote: I have. And it still says "Work for me for free so I can make money off you". Yeah, because I've said all along that I do it for charity. Of course. |
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