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Internet Explorer Downfall of Internet

Corey Manshack — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:55:21 +0000

Internet Explorer has so many different things wrong with it. I was surprised to find this when I was searching about two letter domain names.

some background

Hallvord R. M. Steen — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:47:46 +0000

I had no idea IE had this policy, though I know what problem they are trying to solve with it. Have a look here: Yngve Pettersen (Opera developer) explains cookie TLD problems

Opera solves the same problem by disallowing cookies for a name that has no associated DNS entry. That should make mg.to work just fine :-) but I know it causes some other sites to fail.

:P It

Visitor — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:51:27 +0000

:P It’s deffinetly a great idea for sites such as FB. Like wiki it could help total coding novices to present things in a more presentable manner, rather than the Dreamweaver-esque mess you get on MyPosingSpace :P

I’m sure you could come up with some good ideas for a language from looking around this site, it seems you are pretty heavy into JS. I never actually created any langauges, just an idea of how people could produce code that was literal like this IBM one.

I don’t think programming languages like this one are a good idea because they would become huge if they were to be used in heavy apps. All good programming languages and some really bad ones to compress things to the bare essentials and let you build upon them. I don’t think this could be possible with the IBM one, its would have too many commands and I don’t see how they could be made objective. Although, I guess this language is intented for simple use like on wiki.

Maybe more of a surprise

Michael Geary — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:02:25 +0000

Interestingly enough, it was IBM, not Facebook, that came up with this.

I’ve come up with some revolutionary (revolting?) languages too. I hope yours were better than mine!

Any thoughts on why it turned out to not be a good idea?

An interesting find

David Hopkins — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:43:00 +0000

An interesting find. It doesn’t surprise me that a site like FB would come up with something like this. When I first got into programming I thought that I could revolutionise it by creating a language similar to this, where literal instructions are used to perform actions. However I now know that this is not a good idea :P

I could have told you that :)

Pixy Misa — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:38:56 +0000

As the owner (since 1997) of mu.nu, I’m all too familiar with this “feature”. Technically, it’s correct, but that’s not a lot of comfort for the users who can’t log in. I was hoping they would fix it with IE7, but no.

Desktop Resolution problem

Alan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:46:08 +0000

I run a Shuttle computer with XP Proffesional and a Dell 24 inch LCD Flat Panel Monitor and have set the nVidia screen resolution to maximum resolution. (1600 x 1200 with 32 bit High Colour )

This is great, and normally all applications work with this resolution, however, every time I open up Firefox the screen blanks and the resolution is changed back to 800 x 600. I then have to go in nVidia to reset the resolution back to max.

Is there anyway this can be averted? It doesn’t happen with Mozilla Thunderbird.

As an aside, I have tried your font tweak but you have to dig a bit deeper than indicated to find the settings :- Tools/Options/Content/Fonts & Colours/Advanced gets to the above drop down.

1920 x 1200 Screen Resolution

Visitor — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:49:29 +0000

I also have the same problem. IE adjusts quite fine but I prefer Firefox which cannot adjust to the 1920 x 1200 screen resolution. I have tried several extensions but all in vain. Any Ideas??? Thanks.

Peter

cool tips.

scot — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:24:03 +0000

cool tips.

Michael, Thanks for the tips for tweaking Firefox. I just bou

Chuck Zhu — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:39:19 +0000

Michael,

Thanks for the tips for tweaking Firefox. I just bought a 17” laptop and the screen resolution is 1920 by1200. So most web pages are tiny. I saw your tips for changing the font and it does make the page look nicer. However, i wanted to increase the page proportionally so that the page still keep in its original shape. Is there a way to do that? Currently you can use view/page style to switch the display. but again either does the trick i wanted.

I’m wondering if you have some ideas in this regard. Would very much appreciate if you could help.

Many thanks in advance, Chuck