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Jake Cellardoor
CHM builder
Join date: 27 Mar 2003
Posts: 528
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03-02-2004 13:24
With the new redesign of the website, the pulldown menus don't work with the Opera browser. Please don't make me use IE.
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Camille Serpentine
Eater of the Dead
Join date: 6 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,236
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03-02-2004 13:32
they don't work very well with netscape 7.1 either.
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Mac Beach
Linux/OS X User
Join date: 22 Mar 2002
Posts: 458
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03-02-2004 13:43
Working OK for Mozilla under Linux.
But I had similar problems with the original menus (many months ago).
Part of it turned out to be the checking that was done for browser type in the script, and all of that complex logic had to do with detecting what version of Flash you were running, and deciding what to do about it.
This can get real messy, considering that almost all non-IE browsers can spoof the string that gets returned to the server about browser type.
I still think it would be a good idea to have a non-Flash fallback, selectable by the user in such cases. A lot of work, I know.
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Edit: ooops, I just noticed that the page ISN'T Flash. That was sure quick handling of my suggestion! WTG!
The menues are a lot faster now too. (for me anyway). I also didn't see anything to escoteric in the scripts, so maybe whatever it is thats hanging up Netscape and Opera will be easy to fix.
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Bino Arbuckle
Registered User
Join date: 31 Dec 2002
Posts: 369
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03-02-2004 18:37
Running Safari on OS X. Looks fine to me, and fast too. And cleaner.
Good luck. Hopefully this redesign is more friendly to the non-IE browsers.
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Jake Cellardoor
CHM builder
Join date: 27 Mar 2003
Posts: 528
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03-28-2004 22:41
Update:
Since the March redesign of the website, the pulldown menus don't work with Opera.
Unless, I recently discovered, you set Opera to identify itself as Internet Explorer, in which case the pulldown menus reappear.
It'd be nice if the website fully supported non-IE browsers.
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Mark Linden
Funky Linden Monkey
Join date: 20 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
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03-31-2004 16:17
Our webmaster is looking into this; we've verified that Opera under Win32 doesn't work when it claims to be Opera. We actually test with Opera, Safari, IE, Mozilla, Firefox on MacOS, Windows, and Linux; this got missed because Opera defaults to pretending to be IE 6. We don't actually test for specific browser versions on the site anymore, but we do test capabilities (like cookies, and if you've got a proper DOM, etc)... apparently Opera changes it's behavior in an unexpected way when you tell it to act like Opera.  |
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Pete Foo
Junior Member
Join date: 20 Mar 2004
Posts: 1
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03-31-2004 16:23
Win32 Opera seems to be hit and miss for me. Most of the time they work fine, but for some reason, if I have had the window open for 8 hours or so, they refuse to work. Who knows!? I already have a simple fix for a simple problem. Close the window, ctrl-n a new one, type in secondlife.com, and I'm back in business.
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