Interrobang's Journal: Perfessor Multigeek Comes to Chez Geek!

Hey, everyone. I am sticking my head out of the grave here to tell you that our dear Perfessor Multigeek, long absent from these here virtual parts, and fondly missed, will be visiting me starting at about 3PM tomorrow! Woo!

Of course, we're going to be working on project things, so we're not likely going to have a chance to do much online stuff, really, aside from research (and I do have about a hundred assignments to mark this week and next, gods spare us!), but I might convince him to pop in and say a few words. :)

He should be bringing me a (very antiquated) Mac for doing Reed&Wright stuff with, and probably various and sundry other goodies. I hope he doesn't show up with his suitcase crammed with stuff for me, and two pairs of socks and a pair of boxers crammed into his jacket pockets...

In other news, I'm still doing the perfessing gig myself, which seems to be going as well as possible. I do need to figure out what I'm going to talk about tomorrow in my (*groan*) 8AM class. Maybe we should all adjourn to the cafeteria. There isn't the wherewithal to do a "pub tutorial" at 8AM, as the campus bar is closed.

I was just mentioning to Tomble how Slashdot is still acting up for me (how come my new site, which is all CSS-driven, plays nicely with my browser, and Slashdot doesn't? Aside, of course, from where I b0rked the HTML and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. BUSY!! Can it be that Alex Magill really is God?! He did the Nicest Business Cards Evar[TM] for me, by the way...). I said, "It still renders funny," which made me think, "You render funny, and your mother wears outdated boot sequences." Don't ask. My head's in a strange place these days.

Slashdot

[NaveWeiss]

Slashdot renders fine here. Are you still using that Netscape of yours? You should really upgrade to Firefox. Version 1.5 beta 2 is great (I started really liking it after beta 1, where they made the "back" button much faster - and they fixed some annoying Hebrew problems too).

And good to hear about that visit. I hope you'll get to do some fun stuff too. :)

Netscape

[Interrobang]

Yeah, I'm still using Netscape, on the desktop machine, anyway. I've got Firecritter on the laptop, and, having used it since April, I can honestly say I still don't like it as much. It does a few annoying things I haven't been able to fix.

The point is, it shouldn't matter. This is Slashdot, not ShortBusDot; it should play well with most browsers, and it apparently doesn't. My site does, what's its problem?! (Tomble says it renders as "unformatted" in Dillo, as well, so this isn't just about open-sou

Re:Netscape

[NaveWeiss]

What problems are you having? I think that most of them are fixable.
And.. I think they are through with playing nice with most browsers, I'm afraid. But I don't care much - as long as it works with my fox.

I'll email you. :)

Because /. is special?

[Some Woman]

It doesn't render right in IE (which I have to use at work)- there are huge gaps (like 2 "page downs") before the list of messages and journals, among other glitches. It works fine with Firefox and Safari at home, though.

Have fun with Mr. Perfessor!

Browser stuff

[LPetrazickis]

If you don't want to switch to Opera or Firefox, why don't you try a newer release of the Mozilla Suite [mozilla.org]? Spiritually, it should be very similar to Netscape. The whole reason it still exists is that some people don't like the paradigm behind Firefox.

Oh, and Netscape 8 [netscape.com] was released at some point. It's abominable rewrapping of Firefox rather than the old suite, so you'd probably hate it. Its user interface is really weird and painful. Ugh.

Seriously, please try the Mozilla Suite [mozilla.org] if you haven't.

(If you wa