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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: QA123QTP on 29 Jul 2014, 11:45

Title: QC and iE 11
Post by: QA123QTP on 29 Jul 2014, 11:45
Trying to find out about QC compatability with iE11, any news ?   Any issues ?
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: celticgeek on 29 Jul 2014, 13:07
I use Firefox with no problems, and I have not heard of any problems with IE11.

And welcome!
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Kugai on 29 Jul 2014, 14:31
You're using IE?


You poor fool.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Loki on 29 Jul 2014, 14:40
Eh, IE is a browser nowadays, or so I've heard.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: QA123QTP on 29 Jul 2014, 15:27
Good to know, thanks.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Method of Madness on 29 Jul 2014, 19:45
Quote from: Loki on 29 Jul 2014, 14:40
Eh, IE is a browser nowadays, or so I've heard.
Yep, it is and it's not that bad. I remember having little trouble using it to go to this (http://getfirefox.com) website when I first got my computer back in 2011.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: hedgie on 29 Jul 2014, 20:28
Damn.  I've had a computer since 1985, and I remember the Eternal September like it was yesterday.  I guess there are some advantages to having a parent who was an engineer.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Jul 2014, 01:59
Quote from: QA123QTP on 29 Jul 2014, 11:45
Trying to find out about QC compatability with iE11, any news ?   Any issues ?

If you come across a problem, tell us and we'll solve it.  That's the usual way round, isn't it?

(posted using IE11)

(which is not my normal browser)
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 07:04
Quote from: hedgie on 29 Jul 2014, 20:28
Damn.  I've had a computer since 1985, and I remember the Eternal September like it was yesterday.
What do you mean, like yesterday?  It hasn't ended yet, has it?

(I've had a computer since 1982, but wasn't online until 1990, and didn't really start using the net until 1993, just a few months before the September that never ended ...)
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Jul 2014, 07:12
Youngsters!
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: jwhouk on 30 Jul 2014, 08:58
He said, while posting to the boards via Lynx.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Barmymoo on 30 Jul 2014, 09:02
I use IE sometimes when websites don't work in Firefox (sidenote: web developers, you are not worthy of the title if you cannot make your website compatible for ALL browsers) and it's fine.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Zebediah on 30 Jul 2014, 09:07
Oh God, Lynx! I remember that one. Particularly, back around 1992 I remember seeing all the [IMAGE] links that Lynx used, and thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to automatically download the images and display them alongside the text, instead of having to download them separately and load them in a different program?"

I did not follow up on that thought. A guy named Andreesen apparently had the same thought, and did follow up on it.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: hedgie on 30 Jul 2014, 10:19
Quote from: jwhouk on 30 Jul 2014, 08:58
He said, while posting to the boards via Lynx.
I still use Lynx.  Okay, it's only when X isn't working and I have to get to some Nvidia drivers, but I like having it there when needed. 

Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 07:04

What do you mean, like yesterday?  It hasn't ended yet, has it?

(I've had a computer since 1982, but wasn't online until 1990, and didn't really start using the net until 1993, just a few months before the September that never ended ...)
I think it's pretty safe to say that it either ended or exploded.  Usenet is pretty much dead, aside from specialised groups like the Monastery, and most ISPs don't even have feeds.  Ye gawds, I miss alt.gothic more than anything.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 12:40
Quote from: hedgie on 30 Jul 2014, 10:19
Quote from: jwhouk on 30 Jul 2014, 08:58
He said, while posting to the boards via Lynx.
I still use Lynx.  Okay, it's only when X isn't working and I have to get to some Nvidia drivers, but I like having it there when needed. 
For browsing (or just downloading something), I prefer w3m, if it's available.  (It rarely is, unless I'm maintaining the system myself.)  For a while, Links was superior to Lynx, but Lynx caught up with it, and may be the best all-text renderer.  Unless the situation changed again, while I was looking elsewhere.

To me, the nostalgia trigger is ...

... Mosaic!  8-)

Quote from: hedgie on 30 Jul 2014, 10:19
Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 07:04

What do you mean, like yesterday?  It hasn't ended yet, has it?

(I've had a computer since 1982, but wasn't online until 1990, and didn't really start using the net until 1993, just a few months before the September that never ended ...)
I think it's pretty safe to say that it either ended or exploded.  Usenet is pretty much dead, aside from specialised groups like the Monastery, and most ISPs don't even have feeds.  Ye gawds, I miss alt.gothic more than anything.
I don't think Neverending September is nntp-only.  Certainly netiquette is not.  As long as there are mailing lists and forums, there'll be September.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Jul 2014, 12:51
Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 12:40
To me, the nostalgia trigger is ...

... Mosaic!  8-)

I see your Mosaic and play Cello and WebExplorer.

(Mosaic came first, but was Unix-only at that time; Cello was the first Windows browser.  The first OS/2 browser, WebExplorer, was based on Mosaic, but greatly modified - for a brief period it was considered the best browser available on any platform.)
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: hedgie on 30 Jul 2014, 15:07
Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 12:40

I don't think Neverending September is nntp-only.  Certainly netiquette is not.  As long as there are mailing lists and forums, there'll be September.
Sadly, I think you are right.  The days where one could get online only with a bit of technical knowledge are long gone.  Personally, I'd favour a law that would require anyone wanting internet access to have to deal with dial-up and going through a shell account (mine was an ancient variety of Sun OS) for at least a year before getting to play with the modern stuff.  It was a much more civilised age back then.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: jwhouk on 30 Jul 2014, 18:16
Yeah. When you had to budget your time online because of dialup speeds (which were NEVER at the max that the modem said they were, by the way), you were a lot more efficient with what you did.

Of course, if that rule was in place, Facebook would be dead within a year...
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: techkid on 31 Jul 2014, 06:10
That shows an awful lot of optimism, jwhouk...

I'm comparatively new. I started high school when the "dot com bubble" started to grow back in 1995. Got myself an email address at 14, still in use today. Only changed my password for it like two years ago. For all the policy changes and security requirements that passed in that time, my old password was only a 5-letter word.

But still, I remember the 56k standard that would chug along at 28.8kbps (36.6kbps on a good day). Good times (I was always fascinated by the tones, as annoying as they were...).
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Jul 2014, 17:35
Quote from: techkid on 31 Jul 2014, 06:10
my old password was only a 5-letter word.
Was it "boobs"?
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: techkid on 01 Aug 2014, 04:48
Surprisingly, no. It was my other pursuit and interest of the time.

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Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Method of Madness on 01 Aug 2014, 23:04
Ahhh, gotcha.

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Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: techkid on 02 Aug 2014, 05:22
As far as pun names went, it was pretty good, I will admit :)
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Earin on 02 Aug 2014, 07:12
Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 12:40
I don't think Neverending September is nntp-only.  Certainly netiquette is not.  As long as there are mailing lists and forums, there'll be September.

I've found that MUDs sometimes have the anti-September -- a flurry of new, clueless players starting at the beginning of school/university holidays.
Title: Re: QC and iE 11
Post by: Storel on 03 Aug 2014, 00:09
Quote from: techkid on 31 Jul 2014, 06:10
But still, I remember the 56k standard that would chug along at 28.8kbps (36.6kbps on a good day). Good times (I was always fascinated by the tones, as annoying as they were...).

I think this is where I'm supposed to point out that long away and far ago, my first dialup system involved a Pennywhistle (brand name) modem that gloried in three, yes three different speeds: 110, 150, and 300 baud. Note the absence of a K anywhere in there. :cry: We're talking 110/150/300 bits. Per. Second. The "computer" involved was an uppercase-only Teletype model 33 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33) terminal, which used the 110 baud setting, which meant in full-speed output it chugged along at a whole 10 characters per second. (While ASCII bytes are only 8 bits long, the modem was transmitting 1 parity bit and two ECC (Error Correcting Code) bits with each byte, for a total of 11 bits per character.)

We used this terminal to connect from my junior high school to a timesharing system at Wilson High School on the other side of town, and 95% of what we used it for was playing Trek73 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trek73). (I still have several large rolls of paper containing old game printouts in a box in the basement somewhere.) We're talking slooooooooooow.