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Topic: Film-Tech's Friendly Browser & Browsers That Should Be Friendly!
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-28-2001 07:02 PM
Yeah, what's with that two button thing anyway?I've got about 80 click possibilities with my mouse right now, that I can think up off the top of my head... Click, Half-click, Double Click, Click and a Half, Triple Click... then you multiply by the key modifiers if CMD, OPT, CTL and SHIFT. (2^4) * 5 = 80, right? 
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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 01-28-2001 09:02 PM
Ian, it's not a matter of being "all powerful" and I really don't appreciate the comment as if I am some form of web-Hitler. The bottom line is I am tired of dealing with complaints from people using IE and that's that. 99% of complaints are an issue with the IE browser, not coding with the site. If you don't want to use Netscape, then fine don't...I've no problem with that. But don't come whining to me because you can't view the latest topic or you are constantly having to refresh your browser or you cannot read a certain text because IE doesn't support it or you cannot nagivate because of IE's continuing problems with sizing or because of a cookie incompatibility or pictures won't download or this or that and blah, blah, blah and whine, whine, whine. If you desire to use IE, then please use it quietly. If I was truly worried about being "all powerful" I would simply insert a very quick bit of coding that would redirect everyone using an IE browser to a screen that said "Using IE eh? Get Netscape or no Film-Tech for you!"Martin, if you want to "steal" images from the site, just use Netscape. The resolution will be higher anyway.
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Rachel Carter
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 248
From: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-28-2001 11:02 PM
IMO, I used to use IE and it worked fine...I don't think having to refresh the screen every once in a while is such a bad thing, I always do it anyway.I can't amagine how hard it is to keep this page up (I know I couldn't do it) so being me, I'm not one to complain. I'd take the time to thank Brad for giving us all a place to chat about our "theaters" instead of taking the time to complain that everything is not perfect. But thats just my opinion.... ------------------
"Blood is thicker then blondes" - From the movie, Save the last Dance. FUNNY!!!!!
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-29-2001 01:26 AM
No, I don't have problems often, mind you. Sometimes the download of a page seems to "hang" for a lot longer than it should. Other times the page comes out all catty-wompass and half of it doesn''t appear. It's pretty infrequent and WHEN it does, a refresh fixes it almost all of the time.The ONLY thing that's continuous is that "Hop-To" pop-up doohickey. Even then it's nothing more than a MINOR pain in the arse. As much as I see Brad posting messages in the front page of this site that say, "Servers running slow", I STILL think this site loads faster than most... even other UBB sites! Sometimes, I don't agree with Brad's choices of the way things are done. (For instance, not letting people access pages directly makes it too hard for me to write a "Sherlock" plug-in for this site.) Even then, I understand WHY it's been done, even if I might have done it another way. When it comes out in the wash, it's Brad's dod-gamm site and he can do it the way he wants. This is AMERICA, for cripes-sake! Besides, HE's paying for it!!
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 01-29-2001 02:44 AM
Randy, F.Y.I. The typical page loading problems are due quite honestly to crappy servers with poor connections. The most common problem of a hanging forum page however is usually due to a picture file that has been linked from a non-Film-Tech server by a member. (This is why I try and pull those pictures and move them to the Film-Tech servers as soon as possible...but the servers hosting the site still aren't anything to boast about.) I have bounced this site off of more hosting companies than I care to remember (had to move it 3 times in the last month or so) to get around bandwidth and CPU usage issues. I don't want to announce anything yet, but if all goes well such issues of "hanging pages", etc" will disappear in a couple of months. Issues with IE however, will not change. From the posts above, I think that most people above are already in the habit of reloading the pages and such though. William, I know of no way to "force" IE to always check pages for new content, but on Netscape this is quite easy. Click:
edit/preferences/advanced/cache
and then select "document in cache is compared to document on network every time" and you will never have to use the reload button ever again. (I have heard there is a java based code that will force the refresh of every page it is coded into on the IE browser. Believe me, if I can make it work, I will install it into the forum pages to eliminate these problems with IE.)
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-29-2001 11:42 AM
Sucking the pictures off others servers is cool! I only have 20 MB of space at mac.com and I have a lot of pictures on it. (I use it to keep in touch with family by sending them pictures and stuff.)It's good to know that I only have to leave them up for about a week (at the VERY most) and then I can take them down. I suppose I could PAY for more storage space... Thanks.
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