Re: Subject: Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-11 Thread Clifford Thurber
you can also configure squid to prevent banner ads. Check out ad zapper if you run the squid proxy. At 03:22 PM 3/10/2002 -0600, you wrote: >On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:42:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Vidiot wrote: > > > Isn't there a fast and smart program that can be placed between the >browser >

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:19:04 -0800 (PST) David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled in frustration: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Rick Warner wrote: > >>My web team tests against the top 5 browsers ... > >IE, NS, Moz, Opera ... Konqueror? L

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Richard Potter
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote: > The usual problem with these numbers is that they don't account for > the Opera users who choose to identify their software as MSIE to keep > from being locked out of poorly written sites ... Exactly. Opera rocks. Cheers, -- Richard Potter RHCE

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:45:58PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > >Mozilla does a lot of this too, but I don't think we are talking the > >same degree of flexibility. [...] > OK, is the above for Netscape (which version) or opera? It would effect any and all content passing through the proxy. It effec

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>Which sites? Make sure you're using the latest one. The last >"technology preview" occasionally crashed mysteriously, but I've had >very little trouble with the latest. I'll grab the latest and they them again. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden.

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Burgiss wrote: >On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 05:26:49PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > >> > For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF >> > de-animation, blocking of popups, tight (and flexible) control over >> > cookies, user-c

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vidiot wrote: >I'd switch to opera, if it were to have less bugs. It has trouble displaying >many sites I visit. Which sites? Make sure you're using the latest one. The last "technology preview" occasionally crashed mysteriously, but I've had v

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>Mozilla does a lot of this too, but I don't think we are talking the >same degree of flexibility. > >Quote from the re_filterfile (filters/modifies web page content), and >some other examples to demonstrate flexibility: > ># /

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 05:26:49PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF > > de-animation, blocking of popups, tight (and flexible) control over > > cookies, user-configurable stylesheets. > > Mozilla does a lot of this too, but I don'

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF >de-animation, blocking of popups, tight (and flexible) control over >cookies, user-configurable stylesheets. >David Talkington I'd switch to opera, if it were to have less bugs. It has trouble displaying many sites I visit.

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>This a continuation of the old Junkbuster, with a lot of enhancements. >Quoting from docs: >Hal Burgiss Thanks. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden. It is our job to set up the meeting. U

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:55:12PM -0800, David Talkington wrote: > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > >http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net > > > >This a continuation of the old Junkbuster, with a lot of enhancements. > >Quoting from docs: > > For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF >

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Burgiss wrote: >http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net > >This a continuation of the old Junkbuster, with a lot of enhancements. >Quoting from docs: For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF de-animation, blocking of popups, ti

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:42:58PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > > Isn't there a fast and smart program that can be placed between the browser > and the net that read the HTML coming back to the browser that removes the > ad links from the incoming web page, replacing them with "nothing?" http://ijbswa

Subject: Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Garys
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:42:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Vidiot wrote: > Isn't there a fast and smart program that can be placed between the browser > and the net that read the HTML coming back to the browser that removes the > ad links from the incoming web page, replacing them with "nothing?"

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
Cameron Simpson responded: I found my problem. A while back, and I totally forgot that I did it, someone posted a bunch of as site URLs, which were then put into your local host file and redirected to your localhost 127.0.0.1 address. Well, Netscape doesn't like that. It effectively strips off

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Wilts wrote: >My web site reports (from analog) the following from the last 6 months: > >1. MSIE/5 >2. MSIE/6 >3. Mozilla/4 >4. MSIE/4 >5. Mozilla/5 >6. Netscape (compatible) > >A Mac browser made it into the 23rd spot. There are no other non

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Ed Wilts
> >My web team tests against the top 5 browsers ... > > IE, NS, Moz, Opera ... Konqueror? My web site reports (from analog) the following from the last 6 months: 1. MSIE/5 2. MSIE/6 3. Mozilla/4 4. MSIE/4 5. Mozilla/5 6. Netscape (compatible) A Mac browser made it into the 23rd spot. There

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Warner wrote: >My web team tests against the top 5 browsers ... IE, NS, Moz, Opera ... Konqueror? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.h

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Rick Warner
Browsers tend to be sensitive to improperly written HTML. IE used to be the most sensitve, Netscape is now. Bet if you go through the HTML you will find a tag that is not ended properly or that has a syntax error. A good webmaster would test against all browsers, but few do. I always send com

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22:38 09 Mar 2002, Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What the hell is going on with Netscape? I have the 4.77 RPM version installed | on RH7.1 and the damn thing is screwing up URLs way too often. | | For example: | | |http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/ccmain.superstitial/homepage;dcopt=ist;a

Netscape screwup

2002-03-09 Thread Vidiot
What the hell is going on with Netscape? I have the 4.77 RPM version installed on RH7.1 and the damn thing is screwing up URLs way too often. For example: http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/ccmain.superstitial/homepage;dcopt=ist;abr=!webtv;sz=1x1;ord=1657586323? Comes back as: Not Found The reque