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Mac, IE 5.x, or any unusual browser assistance ple

Mac, IE 5.x, or any unusual browser assistance ple

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I was going to email some screenshots of a firefox bug at low screen resolutions but then thought: why bother; a description will do just as well: so here goes for nothing:
When running firefox 1.0.1 (or 1.0) the red menu bar is truncated and does not show the "messages" or "games waiting" fields. Works fine on IE6 though.
System: win XP, running at 800x600

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I am slowly making progress with this new board code.

I may beta the game history page first, as that presents no risk to games in progress. Expect something over the coming days.

-Russ

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I'm seeing one row of text followed by one row of icons using firefox 1.0 on gentoo linux at 1280x800.

http://www.skryking.net/firefox_1_0_gentoo_linux_1280x800.png

Skryking

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there is just one row...?!? 🙁
th

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Originally posted by skryking
I'm seeing one row of text followed by one row of icons using firefox 1.0 on gentoo linux at 1280x800.

http://www.skryking.net/firefox_1_0_gentoo_linux_1280x800.png

Skryking
I would assume you have the hot icons turned off. (An option on the site.)

The fact that the second row renders fine means all is well.

-Russ

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Just when I was getting somewhere, some contracting work I need to undertake (to pay the bills) has started. This has slowed me somewhat, but I will still make progress over the next 2 weeks.

I even got my hands on a Mac Mini yesterday (at last!), and early testing is good. Mac IE 5.2 is a no-no though. That is one gawd awful browser....

Firefox and Safari all worked fine. (Any Mac users who use IE 5.2 please raise your voices now....)

-Russ


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It is a pleasure for me (beta)testing the site under Linux at university. But I just discovered something very cool: knoppix. It is a Linux distribution with all important (debian) packages AND: you can run it without installing, just boot it from a CD.
So, Russ, you could (just addiationally) download for free the image at http://www.knoppix.net , burn a CD, reboot your PC and use Firefox, Konqueror and other browsers to view the testpage.
Just a suggetion - I like this very cool idea! 🙂
Of course I will try out the site at university under Linux in the future as well.
th

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Thire, I'll get the disc images for that right away.

Good idea, thanks.

-Russ

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So did you already try it out? The new CeBit version 3.8?
It's very cool, no?
th

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And I just discovered Amaya, w3's Browser, but it is not cool at all...
Check out the screenshot at http://fsmat.htu.tuwien.ac.at/~thire/web/rhpbeta/amaya_91.jpg
th

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Oh dear, looks like their might be a few casualties in the next upgrade then. But all very minor.

-Russ

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Originally posted by Russ
Oh dear, looks like their might be a few casualties in the next upgrade then. But all very minor.

-Russ
Casualties? Can I nominate SVW to take 1 for the team, for the good of RHP. 😛😉

D

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Originally posted by thire
It is a pleasure for me (beta)testing the site under Linux at university. But I just discovered something very cool: knoppix. It is a Linux distribution with all important (debian) packages AND: [b]you can run it without installing, just boot it from a CD.
So, Russ, you could (just addiationally) download for free the image at http://www.knoppix.net , bur ...[text shortened]... ea! 🙂
Of course I will try out the site at university under Linux in the future as well.
th
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I just tested with knoppix - the first time I have bothered with these Linux on a disc distros - and I have to say, it is absolutely excellent.

Good call Thire.

Mozilla 1.7 & Konqueror 3.3.1 both check out OK.

The amazing thing to me here is that a few years ago nothing would work apart from IE whenever you did anything even slightly interesting.

How that has all changed, so good job browser developers.

-Russ