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Also seems like the "What's the hardest, most complex way I can accomplish this super-simple task?" kind of person.
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Couldn't he just make a brand new site based on the generated html?
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From the same site under 'System Utilities':
"A new system utility is planned for release in the next few months. It will be announced and posted here when development has been completed."
*shudder*
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Abbreviating Firefox downto Fx is actually all wrong, the Fx is already taken multiple times and it won't do any good to confuse a browser with fireworks or special effects. The natural and intuitious "Ff" should be the official way - yet as in every project there comes a smartass evangelising the One Righteous Way He Came Up With. And then there's multiple acolytes spreading his speech, because he's from The Project so he must be right.And then there's simple nerds happy to know the One Righteous Way and share it with other people that never read their posts. And then there's everybody else, but even if there's someone to do it how it should be done, he's not From The Project, so nobody cares.
Real people don't say "fx" for Firefox.
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Never had a problem; I don't think Firefox uses the registry at all.
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WTF is the deal with stupid ass comments about these forums? They are not that bad. You retards that constantly make comments about it must have an extremely large tree branch stuck up your ass. Alex has already said he is replacing them with the new version of CS as soon as he can... Deal with it and stop with the tired jokes for the sakes of all of our sanity.
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Oh come on. Nothing against Alex, but you have to admit that this forum software really sucks and appreciate the irony of the site that uses it.
I mean I can't even get the stupid pizza to work:
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Dude, don't be afraid of seeking help.
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Sure, It was fine the first 100 comments or so, and I definitely appreciate the irony, All I'm saying is its getting old. It is commented about multiple times every single day, as if everyone wasn't already aware that there are some bugs...
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Sigh.... Now I've moved to New Zealand I miss places like this. I could just fancy a prawn cocktaiil followed by Scampi and chips.
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I'm pretty sure Firefox barely does a thing to your registry hive (like register itself as the default browser at best), everything is handled by text files mostly in your Fx profile.
Which is why Portable Firefox works (try it, if you want to be sure to keep your computer clean).
Additionnaly, the only things Ad-Aware and Spybot find to whine about on my box are a few tracking cookies I get when I happen to have to use MSIE for some random website.
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Install the "IE Tab" extension, allows you to switch back and forth between Gecko and MSHTML from whithin Firefox, no need to ever launch MSIE anymore ;)
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"Some bugs" doesn't quite cover it. Using POST data just for browsing forum threads is a huge design flaw.
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This really plain bull shit! I DONT think anyone would have written such php/ javascript code. If he / she is
really capable of writing this stuff, it surely includes capability to NOT write this stuff.
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Now I just like the visual effect of all the boxes inside of boxes. :)
Stupid pizza still doesn't work!
pi
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haha, see, that was a funny comment. Lets stick with those instead of stupid forum comments
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They could've used MetaL, an XML-based meta-programming language that supports PHP. Then they could've had an XML file that generates the PHP that generates the Javascript that generates the HTML that generates the page, which would obviously be superior since more abstraction layers=better code.
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Not to even mention probably the only browser in existence to interpret vbscript, which makes it kind of pointless to write browser detection code in it to begin with, but since I missed the original posting, I assume that was already discussed there... =)
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Apperantly you missed my little jab at the forum software regarding the stupid pizza icon. ;)
I wonder just how thin that middle box can get?
Stupid pizza still doesn't work.
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That was actually the perfect punch line after a page of broken forum chat. I <3 you. =D
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Enterprisey HTML ?
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<dripping-venom>Because their website has to be cool. It has to blink, and it has to jump. No link whitout javascript, no image whitout a rollover effect. No way for the visitor to select any text - all of it must be in Flash insertions and/or pop-up boxes. And most importantly, their pages must look exactly the same on all computers, with any browser (though they only really work in IE).</dripping-venom>
Sounds familiar?
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"Viola"? Is that a clever reference?
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There are two simple rules for coding web docs:
1) if it doesn't work in Amaya, it isn't a compliant web page.
2) if it rejects a web page that Amaya accepts, it isn't a web browser.
Do You Beleive That?™
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No. Your point? :)
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Ugh. IE and Communicator only. But works the UserAgent in Konqueror - funny, because IME often the javascript check is not fooled by faking the UserAgent. Or Konqueror recently changed their ua faking code to fake better.
Well, I won't say anything about the layout of that page...
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Alex, it's spelled "voilà". The way you spelled it means "raped" in French. And I don't think that was your meaning. ;)
Regarding the ugly javascript stuff, I've seen that a number of times but only one did it properly. I was quite reluctant to static sites in javascript but the presentation was well isolated from the content and the engine. So that changing the look of the site was as easy as editing html and adding pages was just about creating a file with your content only.
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Welcome to Web Creator Pro:
http://www.lmsoft.com/siteb/english/webcreatorpropag.html
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It's voila, not viola.
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Amaya is a frigging piece of shit, it's even less interresting of a broswer as Netscape 4.7, it barely implements CSS and stuff. The W3C just doesn't have the budget and the people to develop a meaningful Amaya, it's not even useful to test websites in it.
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Don't worry; we should be switching to CS 2.0 sometime soon, and then everyone can find new bugs to complain about...
(Hmmm, fun - in the comment page, the entire body is one giant form - which, presumably, means that the contents of the search box are submitted with the post. Didn't notice that before...)
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It always does that if you're posting with certain browsers; they've at least partially fixed it in CS 2.0, thankfully.
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I agree... It will in fact be 'overengineered' when it is a java app. dynamically generating the php files.[8o|]
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Exactly.
Stephen Jennewein, you're an idiot, and the wtf is back at you. It would have been extremely simple to turn the site into a couple of dozen html files. Instead you've left the client with the POS system they started with plus a POS procedure for firefox users.
- K
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It looks to me like the idiots here are the two of you.
Note that it's not just HTML generated by PHP on the server. It's JAVASCRIPT generated by PHP on the server, and interpreted by the browser to display a webpage. If you "save the source" then you eliminate the PHP part, but are STILL stuck with the JavaScript. Now there are two possibilities: the Javascript is standard-compliant and only the HTML it generates via document.write() is buggy. Then you could run the JavaScript in a standalone interpreter and only have to fix the resulting HTML, which is proably a godawful mess. Or the JavaScript itself is buggy and uses all kinds of IE-specific stuff. Then you have to fix that first, then fix the HTML.
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Unless the HTML layout is very complex, I would just copy the text from the HTML page (not the source) and start the whole thing from scratch.
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I don't think this would work. Saving the page as HTML wouldn't show you the HTML that the JavaScript printed...it would just show you the JavaScript function calls.
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If(Firefox) RedirectToIETabPluginDownload();
Fixed :)
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<DailyWTFTag>Help! I can't post without including tons of HTML tags!</DailyWTFTag>
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de goggl
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Simple question!
He heard that "dynamic" is "the next big thing", and so created the ultimate dynamic web api. something so cool you can do everything on it (inner platform effect? nudge, nudge...). and when he was done and maybe even used it for his "site erhem... WEBSERVICE for all and everything" (that gever got finished), he thought it would be the ultimate solution for all and everything, so i must be used for every damn page he does. so of course for this small thing too. easy thing. ;)
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You'd be amazed how easy it is to make stuff like this...
Back when I was a freshman in high school we had to make a trivial webpage that had to include a few things in javascript. Sure enough I took it upon myself to make the entire page generated by javascript. Each page only had the most basic formatting and absolutely no hint to where the javascript was, except for the fact it was a hidden frame. I think I designed the page just to piss off the teacher, but it didn't work. He gave me an A because he couldn't figure out how I got anything to render "without formatting".
The PHP backend is ingenious.
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I think this WTF is actually the code for thedailywtf.com's forum software.
Reed
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I use both browsers on several machines with no conflicts except one minor one:
IE seems to set itself to the "windows default browser" every time you run it, even when it asks you if you want to do that and you respond with an emphatic NO.
Of course, I use IE *very* sparingly ... mainly out of principle.
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http://www.mapleglobal.com
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...how could it be else? This was no spam but the forum ate the quote I was referring to.
" I believe this is a case for the If Browser=Firefox then ErrorBox.show("Get a Real Browser: IE") that showed up on this site a few weeks ago."