Cow and explorer quitting

It quits on me in IE for OSX, but not in the Change Forum page, but once the new forum tries to load up (also does it on the Related Forums pulldown). I actually don't use IE for the Cow, I use Netscape for the tab feature. Works fine in Netscape.

This should be brought up in the Cowmunications forum to Curtis.

Marco Solorio  |  OneRiver Media

I spoke with Curtis about it a few days ago and he thinks it's related to some new banner ads they put up. Unfortunately their is no fix at this time. He suggested I try switching to Safari. I did and Wow! I'm not going back. It is a very cool browser. Even though it is still in beta I have had zero problems with it. Make sure to turn on Tabbed browsing and autofill in the preferences. It loads pages much faster than IE. After a couple of days you'll start learning all of the cool little hidden features that make it even better.

Tony!

The problem with Safari and this forum is that when you are posting you can't press "Q" to quote (it tells you that you can do this at the top of each post). The Q to quote feature works fine in IE, but doesn't work in Safari. Otherwise, I use Safari because its really great. Maybe soemebody on the Cow could make thier code for quoting more compatible with safari??

Yeah the only reason I haven't been using Safari completely is because of the "Q" button not working for quoting. And since the "Q" is my favorite feature of the Cow, I need a browser that supports it. So I still run Netscape on OSX since the "Q" works fine and I really, REALLY like the tab window feature.

[mishka] "So the right forum for this type of posts is Cowmunications?"

This is correct. I've also gone in the Web Design forum to ask things about the site too. Curtis is very active in that forum.

Marco Solorio  |  OneRiver Media

Ah yes, I have this installed too! In fact I have several browsers installed on my dock in my little iMac: Netscape, IE, Safari, Camino and Opera! I can't remember why I wasn't fond of Camino (or Opera) but they still sit there on my dock!

I just wished Safari worked with "Q"... it just looks so pretty.

Marco Solorio  |  OneRiver Media

[steve] "The problem with Safari and this forum is that when you are posting you can't press "Q" to quote (it tells you that you can do this at the top of each post). The Q to quote feature works fine in IE, but doesn't work in Safari. "

You can use "Q" in Opera, which is one of my favorite browsers, and I believe the first to ever implement tabbed browsing. The OS X version is pretty nice, but of course it's a commercial product. If you want to perform the same magic in other browsers, just copy/paste the following into the reply window:

<b>[name]</b> <i> quoted text. </i>

I like Opera because it's Norwegian. Who can blame me? :)

And I never quite got comfortable with Safari for some reason.

--rune

[Mitch Ives] "Since when has COW ever waited for anything, they generally lead... "

Thank you for your kind words.

[Mitch Ives] "COW should NOT wait for a fianl release of Safari... they should be working on it now."

Curtis works on this site as a parttime volunteer. His changes to the mechanism are because he loves the COW, he loves the people and the community. I don't really think it's fair to demand that he add features to software that is still in beta.

Perhaps, you don't think a site should dictate what browser you use -- but I think the failings in IE are far more "political" than just our site. I stopped using it months ago, when it no longer seemed to work with the latest upgrade of OSX. My problems had nothing to do with our site mechanism. And now that my secure sites (https) seem to work just fine with Safari, I probably won't use IE much at all.

On the other hand, based on Rune's suggestion, I downloaded Opera the other day -- and it looked pretty cool. I might start using it more as well. And occasionally I use Netscape -- which I hadn't used for years, because for awhile IE was the better browser. I just don't think Microsoft cares if their browser works with Apple anymore. So, maybe it's just time to move on.


Kathlyn Lindeboom
creativecow.net

[Mitch Ives] "BTW, the Q doesn't work with Omniweb either..."

But it does work with Opera. :-)

[Rune Hansen] "You can use "Q" in Opera, which is one of my favorite browsers, and I believe the first to ever implement tabbed browsing. The OS X version is pretty nice, but of course it's a commercial product. If you want to perform the same magic in other browsers, just copy/paste the following into the reply window:"

http://www.opera.com/

Hey Safari now has tabbed windows! Woohoo! Now if Apple could just fix the Q factor ;-)

Marco Solorio  |  OneRiver Media

I used to have this problem with Safari prior to the last build. They fixed it and the newest v73 build continues to keep my window size setting including the Cow windows. I even tested this for you by assigning the page on startup to go to the Cow and it still worked fine. Maybe you have an old preference file corrupting the newer version???

Marco Solorio  |  OneRiver Media