browser wars threads

[Laura Knotek]

I'd really like to comment on browser wars threads.

For instance, there's a good one here.

IE10 sucks for use as a mod. I don't have all of the mod tools available in IE10, even if I wanted to use it. For example, there is no popup in a user's profile to passport ban, look up IP address, and several others.





I've always preferred Firefox as a user, but as a mod on this forum, it's a no-brainer which browser I'd use.

 

[HeyCori]

I also wish that IE10 would get more options. It's pretty inconvenient when using my Surface.

 

[Daniel Ratcliffe]

Can we please get Tech Team to look at this?

 

[stmav]

Gee Laura, thanks for using a thread I posted in as an example. :wink:

In my opinion, tech team or MN wise, most things Windows related are like a red headed step child. Android and Apple are the favored children.

 

[Laura Knotek]

It doesn't bother me, since I don't own anything RT, and prefer Mozilla anyway (and don't always use Windows anyway). But I see where it would be problematic for RT users.

Are there any browsers beside IE that work in RT?

 

[stmav]

There were rumors of a Firefox for rt, but so far only rumors. It would be nice if the ie on my surface had those options, but I can still get to the mod tools and do what I need to do.

 

[Laura Knotek]

There were rumors of a Firefox for rt, but so far only rumors. It would be nice if the ie on my surface had those options, but I can still get to the mod tools and do what I need to do.

I heard the rumours but wasn't sure if an actual product materialized yet.

I have modded using IE, just to try it. I posted in the Mobile Nations bug reports, but nobody responded to my thread. I believe i included screenshots. If not, you're welcome to use my screenshots here as examples. I don't mind someone else reusing them if they might help.

 

[stmav]

Considering that some of us WPC mods are probably the only ones using ie, I doubt it's high on the priority list. Thanks for the offer. If it does become a hot topic I'll be sure to use them.

 

[Dave Blake]

I guess I am going to have to go back to using FireFox. I prefer IE10 but you do lose some options with it.

 

[palandri]

I bet if you turn down the security setting on IE it would work right. When I installed no-script to Firefox, I had a lot of things blocked until I allowed some of the 3rd party cookies through. I think IE is just blocking some of the script needed.

 

[Daniel Ratcliffe]

Exactly that Palandri. I've added WPCentral, the Google ads service, and MobileNations to my trusted site list and set the security to low... and low and behold...

 

[stmav]

On my Surface RT, metro IE doesn't work no matter what I do. But on desktop IE, all I had to do was set the level to low on trusted sites. Didn't need to add any sites to the list. So if I feel the need I can just go to desktop mode.

Still unable to get it to work in IE10 on Win7 laptop.

 

[Daniel Ratcliffe]

On my Surface RT, metro IE doesn't work no matter what I do. But on desktop IE, all I had to do was set the level to low on trusted sites. Didn't need to add any sites to the list. So if I feel the need I can just go to desktop mode.

Still unable to get it to work in IE10 on Win7 laptop.

I can't get it to work on my IE10 Win8 desktop unless I add the sites to trusted...

 

[stmav]

I can't get it to work on my IE10 Win8 desktop unless I add the sites to trusted...

Must be something to do with the differences between Win8 and WinRT

 

[HeyCori]

Or maybe the site programmer just hates IE10, lol.

 

[stmav]

Or maybe the site programmer just hates IE10, lol.

We could have a winner here

 

[Laura Knotek]

I just tried Opera Next 15.0, and it works fine.