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Talon DeCuir

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Join date: 19 May 2007

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10-21-2007 15:07

Which one is better for use with the land store in your experiences? Which is better overall?

I was suprised to see the landstore indicated that IE 7 would not properly display the land store! So in order to further my research on purchasing a sim, I need one of the two "other" browsers.

Inquiring minds.....

SuezanneC Baskerville

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Join date: 22 Dec 2003

Posts: 14,229

10-21-2007 15:42

The Land Store appears to be closed.

I was going to see if I could tell you how Opera's Kestrel beta 9.5 build 9603 did with the Land Store but it's closed. Perhaps the guy that closes things got it confused with the pool.

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Farallon Greyskin

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Join date: 22 Jan 2006

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10-21-2007 20:12

Heh turned out that Opera didn't work either

Seriously SL needs like at least one real web coder that can actually fix bugs in the mountains of external O.S. code they cobbled togeather here but don't seem to really knwo how to make work right

Nina Stepford

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Join date: 26 Mar 2007

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10-22-2007 05:45

if youre on about the 'land store' for buying islands and reserving spaces, firefox works just fine.
dunno about the auction bit though. seems buggy, but i reckon its the webserver and not ff.

Haravikk Mistral

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10-22-2007 09:21

Hrm, while I can understand a reluctance to support IE (because it's utter crap and its standards compliance seems to be based on a chaos theory model), not supporting it properly is just lazy!

It is a pain to do, and it means that a lot of things you might like to do with a web-page may have to be done in hack-ish or roundabout ways, it doesn't mean you should just put a "This might not work in IE" warning on.
Although that said, the more big web-sites that start refusing to support Internet Explorer and recommending FireFox instead, the better, as people will switch, or Microsoft might be forced to *gasp* create an actual web-browser.

Personally I'm leaning in favour of using Adobe's Flex:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

Which produces Flash Programs that behave much like web-pages and are much better to develop in than javascript is for AJAX style web-sites. Plus since it runs in Flash which Adobe also own, it's guaranteed to work for anyone running Flash =)

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Firefox or Opera - which is better for use with Land Store?
Talon DeCuir Angel Join date: 19 May 2007 Posts: 350	10-21-2007 15:07 Which one is better for use with the land store in your experiences? Which is better overall? I was suprised to see the landstore indicated that IE 7 would not properly display the land store! So in order to further my research on purchasing a sim, I need one of the two "other" browsers. Inquiring minds.....
SuezanneC Baskerville Forums Rock! Join date: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 14,229	10-21-2007 15:42 The Land Store appears to be closed. I was going to see if I could tell you how Opera's Kestrel beta 9.5 build 9603 did with the Land Store but it's closed. Perhaps the guy that closes things got it confused with the pool. _____________________ - So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them. I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne - http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03. Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard, Robin, and Ryan -
Farallon Greyskin Cranky Seal Join date: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 491	10-21-2007 20:12 Heh turned out that Opera didn't work either Seriously SL needs like at least one real web coder that can actually fix bugs in the mountains of external O.S. code they cobbled togeather here but don't seem to really knwo how to make work right
Nina Stepford was lied to by LL Join date: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 3,373	10-22-2007 05:45 if youre on about the 'land store' for buying islands and reserving spaces, firefox works just fine. dunno about the auction bit though. seems buggy, but i reckon its the webserver and not ff.
Haravikk Mistral Registered User Join date: 8 Oct 2005 Posts: 2,482	10-22-2007 09:21 Hrm, while I can understand a reluctance to support IE (because it's utter crap and its standards compliance seems to be based on a chaos theory model), not supporting it properly is just lazy! It is a pain to do, and it means that a lot of things you might like to do with a web-page may have to be done in hack-ish or roundabout ways, it doesn't mean you should just put a "This might not work in IE" warning on. Although that said, the more big web-sites that start refusing to support Internet Explorer and recommending FireFox instead, the better, as people will switch, or Microsoft might be forced to gasp create an actual web-browser. Personally I'm leaning in favour of using Adobe's Flex: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/ Which produces Flash Programs that behave much like web-pages and are much better to develop in than javascript is for AJAX style web-sites. Plus since it runs in Flash which Adobe also own, it's guaranteed to work for anyone running Flash =) _____________________ Computer (Mac Pro): 2 x Quad Core 3.2ghz Xeon 10gb DDR2 800mhz FB-DIMMS 4 x 750gb, 32mb cache hard-drives (RAID-0/striped) NVidia GeForce 8800GT (512mb)

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