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Update:
This has been temporarily resolved by removing the quotes altogether.
Safari – so good.
Firefox fine with me. I gave up with IE6 and have not gone back to Mr Gates since….
Greenfinches:
i agree
Internet Explorer is just too darned easy to be exploited.
People still use IE? How quaint.
Doc, are you sure you want to fix it? Why not just take a cue from Orly and blame it on your enemies? That seems a lot easier.
Oh Doc, man, you just dont get it! This ain’t just some little browser issue, man, this is a metaphorical bullseye painted right on that purty little cowboy hat of yours. This is hacking tampering conspiring and treasoning in a way you aint never seen. This is birthers, truthers, secessionists, prohibitionists, foxbots, wndeists, and RICO plaintiffs AT THE GATES, man, and you gotta figure out how to fight or it’s over! Don’t you realize what’s happening? “Text obscured by huge quotation marks?” Doc, check out Taitz’s site, it’s a cyber-ops laboratory for these kind of design attacks. C’mon brother, wake up and smell the pancakes, this is serious, and you need to get with the program cuz they’re coming for you, just as soon as they track your IP address.
Dennis Hopper is Randy Quaid, in Jon Stewart’s Judgment at Rancho Santa Margarita.
At my office, we are forced, by lazy, itinerant IT who’s on a brother-in-law contract, to use IE8. This is, in my opinion, the worst version of the worst browser ever. I was the main client contact at an internet publisher when IE 8 was current.(Yes, I was the guy that took the specs from the customers to the engineers … “I have people skills dammit!”). 98% of all technical complaints went back to users selection of browser. Unless blessed with limitless resources, you code for the web, and then you make work-arounds for IE. The prevalent hubris, among coders who have yet to submit to the inevitable, is “F—— IE and anyone using it. Tell them to get a real browser.”
IE simply does darn near everything differently and worse than all other major browsers. And, although, its market share has been declining for a decade, its still the default browser on the default platform. Users of any experience immediately disable it (I delete it on all my systems!), but casual users can’t be bothered and just use it.
Doc, I’ve been seeing all sorts of weird things here when viewed from IE8 at work. It’s IE, so I don’t say anything. Remember the image I couldn’t see on the recent Corsi article, the Guy Fawkes masks? I went back and checked. In IE 8, the table wasn’t flowing properly, and the image was behind the skyscrapers WND runs on the right! At least I wasn’t crazy. Often when loading OCT, what appears to be a mobile version loads. Refreshing (usually) fixes that. And you should see the way the pages load. I can’t describe it.
I hope you can always support all platforms and reach the widest audience, but, ultimately, what are ya gonna do, Doc? IE … it’s the web’s Chinatown.
…or you turn on Compatibility View in IE for this site.
Compatibility View is for backwards-compatibility. No help in areas in which IE has been left behind, or gone in an entirely different direction than the rest of the web. Telling IE8 or 9 to view a site as if it were compatible with 6 or 7 isn’t much help.
One alternative for IE9 is to open “developer tools” (from the menu or F12) and change the browser mode and document mode to Internet Explorer 8. They are on the menu line of the developer console that appears at the bottom of the page. Unfortunately, it only works in the current session and the user has to select them again if they exit IE9.
If you are on a work computer, you may find this feature missing or unavailable. IT folks are funny that way.
Is this true Misha?
People still use IE?
Yes it is since it resolved the issue immediately.
I live in Chinatown – literally.
No.
It was a reference to the movie Chinatown. According to the movie, LA’s Chinatown was a hopeless place.
As a theme, I agree.
As a film, it won an Academy award so it wasn’t that bad. 😉
Anyway to stay on topic, I’m on a Mac running Firefox or Roccat.
Neither had any problem with the quotes.
In Firefox, the quotes were large and slightly overlapped text, but they were in a light grey and didn’t truly obscure anything.
I have IE, but rarely use it.
There’s a web game I’ve been meaning to play again. It ONLY works in IE. It’s a remake of a classic game called Madmaze from the old Prodigy service from the early 90s. I suppose I should get around to installing some sort of IE emulator add-on for Firefox.
So, here I am at work again, enjoying the IE8. Google constantly reminds me to “get a modern browser” and offers a redirect to whatbrowser.org. It’s a very cute page. I finally got irked enough to push the outdated software issue. We are running an old Server, this as new as it gets. Ouch! Life among the Luddites. Have I mentioned the insistence on printing PDF forms out and completing them by hand?
Anyway, I must apologize to JackOL. Although the stated purpose of IE’s compatibility View is to make old pages work in new browsers, by disabling new technologies/standards, etc. Doing so can get ‘new’ pages to work better in old browsers … possibly losing functionality, but it’s a trade-off.
For grins I fired up the ACID3 test here. scored a 22. For extra grins, I turned compatibility view on on the ACID3 page. The test failed completely. The browser had indeed gone back in time.
For what it’s worth, OCT looks good from here today.
I don’t think that should stop your IT Dept from certifying and using newer browsers. New browsers know how to talk to old servers just fine.
Thanks for the breathe of reason! IT dept., he says, that’s one guy on call. You are right, that isn’t what’s stopping them. You’d have to be here to believe it. I just put up with the place, and have my own tech heaven at home.
Ah, and I meant [Windows] Server 2003. He locks out any browser other than IE, and IE8 is the last to support WinServ2003. They did recently replace the server … and promptly installed old software on it.
YGBKM! Is he secretly using your system for some kind of nefarious undertaking? Or getting kickbacks from M$oft? I can’t think of any possible reason to ‘lock out’ browsers that are demonstrably more secure and resource efficient.
I can understand needing WS2003. The place where I volunteer (a state historical society) has a prehistoric library system that they can’t afford to upgrade and when it failed I built them a new box with SBS2011 on it. The library software wouldn’t run, or at least it was too hard to make it work. I just fired up VirtualBox under SBS2011 and installed WS2003 on a VM. It is actually much much easier to manage than standalone. Of course, much of the ease of management improvement is because backup is on USB disk drives instead of tapes, and the new server is quiet enough that it can be put where the staff can get to it instead of upstairs in a dusty, un-airconditioned store room.
So yes, WS2003 still has useful life. That doesn’t mean you have to keep everything 10 years old and unsecure.
Me loves VirtualBox. 🙂
Runs on almost everything, is free and can support a huge number of OS’s.
There’s nothing like running a wholly different OS in a separate window and being able to copy and paste between OS’s.
Given the speed of the host CPU, sometimes you can even run (usually older) OS’s faster than they would run natively on past CPUs.
DOS 3.1 was originally meant for CPUs at 2,4,6 and 8 mhz.
Then, a “Turbo mode” might mean a 12 mhz processor.
Running DOS 3.1 on a CPU running at over 3 ghz is quite nice.