Good Time

GreyDuck Said:
>As for the constant nagging: Tabbed browsing really is the bee’s knees, but more importantly there’s something to be said for not using the #1 mechanism by which malware can land on your PC. Yes, it’s better than it used to be, but not good enough to make me comfortable using IE for anything other than using wholly trusted sites (like our company’s in-house tools).

Great reasons why one might wish to choose browsers. But I do a fair amount of my browsing from machines that I am not an administrator on. I cannot install software. Yea, IT department! So I am reduced to using what is available – IE. And I get tired of being berated for my “choice”. It’s tiresome. You like tabbed browsing – great for you. Microsoft sucks. We know this. I don’t need 200 people chanting at me. I get the picture.

Not sure what the fuss is about “tabs”, as it seems logical to have another window opened, and further windows even as a link is followed, and when these are dismissed, the parent window is still there to continue, or whatever. With that in mind, how would I gain anything by opening in a tab?

I followed ‘The_Decryptor’’s suggested link for ‘imageshack’, and found a very slow loading, small fonted, wide presentation. Not too nice. But why would that happen? Are some people actually using that form, and do they not know that it can be so much better, or is it sour grapes?

Curiously I wondered what would happen if I followed Handy Solo’s suggested link, but on seeing it I realised there was no point in generating a Safari rendering on what is already a Safari presentation. Doh! It’s only for non-Safari users, though it does seem not a simple exercise to see how it would turn out – though not too hard either.

Iv’e just had a look at the link provided by Kaustav, above, for ‘astrolondon’. I find it quite straightforward and simple to use. Mind you, I did not go too far into the various topics, though I did check the podcast which started straight away. Buffering is problaby my fault as it hesitated soon after, then played a few more seconds. I then elected to download the 14 minute podcast which was slow but I can listen to it later. Clicking on the ‘about’ tag at the top of the page, dropped down a pane which is really an ‘about me and my site’ display, complete with photo and URLs.

Quite effective. However there is a dearth of topics available, and the latest is months old, though it may be only a sample. I did not see the instruction to submit a URL so that it would respond with a Safari rendition. That seems to be what the aforementioned Handy Solo link was to do. Maybe I missed it.

Over the last couple of months, I did notice three other things though. The first was the message if a ‘double send’ of the comment was detected, and without doing anything, (save clicking off of it – this may be all that is necessary anyway), there is only one actual post. That is what it is all about – simplicity.

The second issue is that extra long URLs tend to not wraparound as normal text does, it just goes on into, or more correctly under, the right hand column. And the type-in box in the ad for the daily updates, just under Phil’s photo, also extends too far beyond the border. Examples of both can be found in the above blog, so there is at least one bug to zap.

Another issue has to do with this comment box. I like to use the ‘page up/down’ button, which used to work, but recently, and even now since the new version, even as I type this, the page button does a double-page shift, (in this box) and I have to chase it with the scroll button. (I will check further in case it is a wider problem in my Mac, but I don’t think so.)

Phew, Phil … well, you asked!

Ivan.