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29 Aug 2004, 00:40
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the best thing since sliced bread
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29 Aug 2004, 01:08
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overtired
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
ta, I'm now using it
as you say, seems to work ok with Gmail, so now I only need IE for windows update
scrollbars seem really bright when they have focus
and Leshy, why hast thou forsaken us?
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29 Aug 2004, 01:12
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Weeeeee
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
yea i though leshy gets phone calls from opera telling him when a new version is out, so he can tell everyone on the PLANET about it
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29 Aug 2004, 01:20
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
I just use IE.....its easiest
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29 Aug 2004, 01:22
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Superpig #1
I just use IE.....its easiest
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/me waits for tellings off
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29 Aug 2004, 01:23
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
/me wonders about the bread
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29 Aug 2004, 01:32
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by The Real Arfy
/me waits for tellings off
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Current browser enlightenment / zealot policy is not to attempt conversion.
We simply shake our heads with an air of smugness and feigned pity and leave you to struggle in ignorance knowing one day the worthy will see the light and join us. The fate of those who do not is irrelevant.
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29 Aug 2004, 01:57
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
You know what's funny is that advertisers have only started jumping through hops to get through ad blockers now that MICROSOFT have released an ad blocking in Win XP SP2
Your other browsers are just too small-time face it kids.
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29 Aug 2004, 01:58
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
Am I the only one that didnt understand that above post?
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29 Aug 2004, 09:32
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
i doubt its any better than firefox.
who needs email in a browser anyway? it just doesnt belong there. thats just like microsoft, they also add more and more stuff to the OS that dont belong there.
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29 Aug 2004, 09:59
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
yay
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29 Aug 2004, 10:06
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
inline error messages ..... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! solves the problem i was having yesterday leshy i most happy
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29 Aug 2004, 10:25
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
i'm in shock. an opera post thats been here for 9-10 hours thusfar and no leshy post.
Leshy - are you feeling ok?
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29 Aug 2004, 10:28
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
Outrageous.
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29 Aug 2004, 10:55
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Mr. Blobby
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by 1-X
and Leshy, why hast thou forsaken us?
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It's a preview version which features some regressions from Opera 7.54, especially in the sense of CSS styling. Besides, I was too busy talking to Opera to do anything else than comment upon it in #forums
And I haven't replied yet because this topic has a title which - while completely true - does not in any way bear any relationship to it's content and as such it didn't grab my interest previously.
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29 Aug 2004, 10:57
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Sunday8pm
Your other browsers are just too small-time face it kids.
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Why on Earth would this matter?
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29 Aug 2004, 11:12
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by wu_trax
i doubt its any better than firefox.
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It has some pro's against Firefox, such as the fact it lets you get started right away, without having to find and install dozens of plugins - a lot of popular ones just copy Opera features (and usually poorly), it doesn't require you reboot for changes such as skins, it features more options than Firefox, which afaik still doesn't have the option to actually replace stylesheets or have a Notes system with all Opera goodness, et cetera.
Firefox has the advantage of being free, and sometimes compatible with pages that Opera isn't, due to webdesigners using highly outdated "If browser = MSIE do this, If browser = Netscape do that, ELSE do nothing" scripts, where Firefox has the advantage of essentially running on the old Netscape core. On the other hand, I've encountered pages that didn't work in Firefox and did in Opera, so it's a mixed bag.
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who needs email in a browser anyway?
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Opera isn't a browser, it's an Internet Suite offering a browser, e-mail client, newsgroup and RSS reader and chat client.
Apparently many users like having their email and browser in one central place than as several standalone applications, although I personally don't either. Having said that, Opera's mail client is supposed to be pretty good. At any rate, the installation lets you choose whether you want to use Opera as a full Internet Suite, or just as a browser.
The main difference between Microsoft features and Opera's, is that the first has a lot of useless stuff that takes up disk space and system resources, whereas Opera's mail client is basically a small .dll file which, if unused, doesn't actually use any additional resources.
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29 Aug 2004, 11:12
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by wu_trax
i doubt its any better than firefox.
who needs email in a browser anyway? it just doesnt belong there. thats just like microsoft, they also add more and more stuff to the OS that dont belong there.
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One of the first things you will notice when you start Opera is the ability to select whether to use Opera as an Internet suite or as a browser only. The latter option disables Opera Mail, which can be enabled again via Preferences > Programs and paths. The first-time setup dialog also allows you to easily disable the personal bar and panel selector to increase your page viewing area.
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29 Aug 2004, 12:09
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Leshy
It has some pro's against Firefox, such as the fact it lets you get started right away, without having to find and install dozens of plugins
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That's blatantly not true. You do not have to install a single plugin in order for Firefox to work "out of the box", as it were. It runs perfectly fine after the default install.
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- a lot of popular ones just copy Opera features (and usually poorly), it doesn't require you reboot for changes such as skins, it features more options than Firefox,
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Copying opera features? Maybe. Less features than Opera? Hardly.
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which afaik still doesn't have the option to actually replace stylesheets or have a Notes system with all Opera goodness, et cetera.
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http://texturizer.net/firefox/edit.html#content
And I believe there is a plugin available if you want Notes
At the end of the day, in it's default install, Firefox is a small, lightweight, fast browser. If you want a few more functions, then you can choose which ones to install yourself. I'd rather that, than have them thrown at me like Opera.
I'd argue more, but I have a christening to go to.
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29 Aug 2004, 12:24
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Mr. Blobby
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Belgarath The Sorcerer
That's blatantly not true. You do not have to install a single plugin in order for Firefox to work "out of the box", as it were. It runs perfectly fine after the default install.
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My apologies. Firefox does function as a very basic browser out of the box, however it contains pretty much no features beyond blocking popups and having the option to open tabs instead of windows - there's not even a way to set this as automatic behaviour.
Considering the amount of extensions that are created and their respective download statistics, it appears a vast amount of users does want the added functionality, which means they still have to find and download a plethora of plugins.
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Copying opera features? Maybe. Less features than Opera? Hardly.
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Firefox is still not able to actually replace stylesheets, display only cached images, block the download of images through CSS*, keep a notes system with automatic URL reference to their source, read webpages and accept voice commands , zoom entire webpages, et cetera.
Of course, you can find and download 50 plugins so that you have a bulky and overloaded browser, in which case you could claim that Firefox has more features than Opera, regardless of the fact you'll never use half of them and just need them to beef up numbers.
That adds custom user styles, it does not replace stylesheets. And I've seen the Notes plugin; it doesn't do near what Opera's Notes system does.
At the end of the day, as it's default install, Opera is a smaller, more lightweight and equally fast if not faster browser. If you want extra functions, they are accessible to you at the touch of a key, or the click of a mouse without the need for any downloads or configuration. Opera never throws any features at you, the most intrusive question you'll ever get asked is whether you'd like to use mouse gestures or not when you make one for the first time.
* Unless I'm mistaken, images blocked through CSS are still downloaded by Mozilla/Firefox, saving you no bandwidth whatsoever.
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29 Aug 2004, 12:32
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
Well Leshy made an apperance in the end
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29 Aug 2004, 21:06
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
the best thing since sliced bread is toast.
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29 Aug 2004, 21:55
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
You know, I may be ignorant, but I use IE aswell. I have no doubt Opera is superior in 80000001 ways, but for what I use it for, IE serves me fine.
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29 Aug 2004, 23:07
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Rids
You know, I may be ignorant, but I use IE aswell. I have no doubt Opera is superior in 80000001 ways, but for what I use it for, IE serves me fine.
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yes but ur a retard
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29 Aug 2004, 23:12
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Deathjam|wee
yes but ur a retard
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This was a shit post. It was deleted because it was written by someone with no comedic ability whatsoever, who was boring the shit out of the community. This message will be repeated whenever this individual posts something shit from now on.
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29 Aug 2004, 23:12
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
This was a shit post. It was deleted because it was written by someone with no comedic ability whatsoever, who was boring the shit out of the community. This message will be repeated whenever this individual posts something shit from now on.
Last edited by Kurashima; 29 Aug 2004 at 23:48.
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29 Aug 2004, 23:39
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Mr. Blobby
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Rids
I have no doubt Opera is superior in 80000001 ways, but for what I use it for, IE serves me fine.
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As long as you don't mind the fact your browser is currently affected by 17 publically known and unpatched security issues, out of which 5 rate at least Highly Critical, then yeah, it serves you fine. Ignorance is bliss anyway
And to compare:
Firefox is vulnerable to 3 security issues, 2 out of which rate Moderately Critical.
Opera is currently not affected by any known exploits.
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30 Aug 2004, 00:56
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
gmail still doesn`t work perfectly for me, i can login etc. But when i actually click on 'links*' in the 'site-thingy*' it just doesn`t do anything, so i right clicked and clicked on 'go to url' etc which gave the following message:
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The address is not available from this machine
The page is currently not available for Opera to display. Please check the following:
Are your proxy settings correct? Is a proxy required to connect to the Internet? Have you tried disabling proxies? Check that the hostname, IP address and port number is correct.
Try enabling Synchronous DNS if it is disabled and disable it if it is enabled, in Opera's Network preferences.
Are you using Internet security software, such as ZoneAlarm or Norton Internet Security? Is this software properly configured? What happens if you disable this software?
Are you behind a firewall on your LAN?
Does other software work? Other browsers? E-mail clients? If not, this is not an Opera related problem.
If you are on a dialup connection, check the dialup properties for your connection and under Server types, make sure it is set to log on to the network.
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which doesn`t really make sense, as everything else works properly, and gmail also works fine with firefox, and i`ve also tried the synchronous DNS - doesn`t do a thing :/
help is appreciated etc.
*forgive the lack of technical terms
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30 Aug 2004, 01:05
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Leshy
Opera isn't a browser, it's an Internet Suite offering a browser, e-mail client, newsgroup and RSS reader and chat client.
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Ala Mozilla.
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30 Aug 2004, 01:18
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by _ryzekiel_
gmail still doesn`t work perfectly for me, i can login etc. But when i actually click on 'links*' in the 'site-thingy*' it just doesn`t do anything, so i right clicked and clicked on 'go to url' etc ...
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Is the "identify as..." (tools/quick preferences) set to Opera and not one of the others?
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30 Aug 2004, 01:24
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by 1-X
We simply shake our heads with an air of smugness and feigned pity
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Your pity is feigned?
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Originally Posted by Leshy
Stuff about Firefox and Opera.
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Hey Leshy, have you tried the web developer's toolbar extension for FF yet?
Best. Thing. Ever.
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30 Aug 2004, 01:43
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overtired
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by sayonara
Your pity is feigned?
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A poor choice of words that on closer inspection don't make sense. I regret using them.
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30 Aug 2004, 05:59
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Mr. Blobby
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by Androme2
Ala Mozilla.
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Pretty much. Although whereas Mozilla is big and clunky, Opera is neat and tight and smaller than Firefox - without the voice library, which will be optional.
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Originally Posted by sayonara
Hey Leshy, have you tried the web developer's toolbar extension for FF yet?
Best. Thing. Ever.
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I have it, but I've never really used it. I do regularly use Opera's Web Developer Toolbar (Available at http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera7/, site is currently down but should be back up in a few days).
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30 Aug 2004, 08:07
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
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Originally Posted by 1-X
Is the "identify as..." (tools/quick preferences) set to Opera and not one of the others?
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Heh, that was the prob, cheers.
[edit - just had to close opera because of some error, etc. re-started it, changed the identification to opera again, but gmail stopped working again, and i`ve got the same prob as before :/]
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30 Aug 2004, 08:41
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Rawr rawr
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
Fk Microsoft... their MSDN barely works in opera.
Here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...eekmessage.asp
If I identify as opera, I don't even get a left-hand menu frame.
If I identify as MSIE6, I get the frame, but the menu doesn't work.
And in IExplore6 it work fine.
It makes me sad
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If I identify as Mozilla5 it works in Opera too. Shit javascript shit.
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30 Aug 2004, 13:41
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Mr. Blobby
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Re: the best thing since sliced bread
On the bright side, the new http://www.microsoft.com is much better!
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