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snalin:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 28 Feb 2014, 04:08 ---Windows 8 tablet?
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See, we keep coming up with fixable problems here.
No, but seriously, all university websites I've been by has been horrendous. Run it with dev tools open (F12 for iexplorer, I think?), and check if it fires some error messages. That might help you figure out what's happening. Not saying it will fix anything, but you might find out something interesting.
Masterpiece:
It doesn't make a difference, from a software standpoint, but I didn't want to cause confusion by mentioning it was a tablet, because most people don't realize how Windows 8 seems to work and there's no IE on Android or iOS.
Can we get back to my original question? I feel like someone brought politics into the gunsmithing thread.
Warning - while you were typing someone didn't care what browser you used and answered your question.
Stalin, it's not the university websites but rather every website that decides to act weirdly. I've used F12 developer tools and switched to a different browser profile, but that didn't seem to work.
Could it be a matter of the network router simply not liking IE? I could talk to some admins in that case.
snalin:
I am Stalin, the Red Danger. Fear me!
Also I totally read "university website" instead of "university network", not sure how that happened.
Have you tried using another browser on the same pages, just to check if it's actually an IExplorer problem, and not a university network problem? University networks has a tendency to use dynamic IPs all over the place, and might be refreshing your IP way too often. That would explain dropped sessions. It might also mask the information you send out through clever use of proxies or whatever, which might explain why the layout of pages are weird.
Check out http://browserspy.dk/browser.php while on the university network. The appVersion and userAgent are the interesting ones - they should say something like IExplorer somewhere. Don't worry about appName or appCodeName, they will always be Netscape and Mozilla.
Masterpiece:
Firefox works, but like I said, I really don't like using it. I mean, this is the keyboard I'm writing this post in:
(click to show/hide)
and Firefox doesn't open it by itself, even when there's no keyboard attached to the PC. I have to force it open here, I don't on IE.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 28 Feb 2014, 04:01 ---Your first problem is using internet explorer.
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Yawn - that's sooo last decade. The main problem with the current version of IE is the sites that don't realise how standards-complaint it is and still send it all the quirks stuff that the older versions required! I know about this because I have to deal with it frequently; the fix is to go to developer tools (again) and tell IE to emulate an older version, at which point it will correctly handle the rubbish that the sites are sending it.
In case you think I'm a fanboy, I hate IE, for its interface - I use Opera 12 (not the new Chrome knock-off) and FireFox for special purposes.
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 28 Feb 2014, 03:52 ---Is it possible for a university network to screw up a web browser?
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Quite easily, if it's using a so-called transparent proxy.
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