V3 problems ?

Speed is about the same as before.

Doesn't remember me.

Keeps asking me to go with extra security and only be able to login from one IP address. This is a bad feature. What if my IP is dynamic? If my IP changes, how do I get back in? How many users are you going to accidentally lose because of this feature? I don't like it. At least stop asking me so that I don't accidentally log in that way and fark myself.

@ wit_ Tried Firefox. It sucks. Mozilla works better for me. :P

Authenticating my login takes a looooong time.

**this space reserved for additional problems**

i can't talk about if it's fast or not because my internet connection is slow , but it seems with future that all problems can solve by Diz-x, i hope , meanwhile i'll try to enjoy this new WBW v3

@wit_ - What are you trying to tell me? Can you spell it out (FireFox reference)?

Quote:

(if your session has not expired, it has time-limit no...)

??? I don't understand your comment.

#5 - Please expand a little more on that. I am not sure what you mean?

** expanded question **

another problem: have to log in 3x until i'm actually in.
and everytime again.

I'll try to explain G-E-T F-I-R-E-F-O-X A-N-D Y-O-U-R-L-I-F-E- W-I-L-L B-E B-E-T-T-E-R

I think no.5 had something to do with this...

FireFox 1.0PR was released yesterday.

Considering most people will continue to use IE, it makes more sense to just make the site compatible with other browsers. That is, unless your goal is to have fewer members visit.

Same problems exist for me with IE, Netscape and FireFox on all three of the machines I use at work. Later, I'll try a UNIX box, and if I get really bored I might even try WBW on a Mac (highly doubtful, though) and see what happens in those OS's.

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Originally posted by OminousBunny

Considering most people will continue to use IE, it makes more sense to just make the site compatible with other browsers. That is, unless your goal is to have fewer members visit.

This is just the great problem of our internet today
sum 90% of surfers use a browser that does not comply with standards and has all kinds of fucking little nibles that only work on it, and most webmasters just have to make their sites to work with it...
Not with standards, what would benefit everyone else byt M$

@wit_ - are you alluding that you don't care that much for IE/Microsoft.

@Diz - To what extent would you like us to report bugs and under what format? Most bugs I see are very little that are of priority 4 or 5 that need not be fixed anytime soon. Would you like us to hold off on reporting those? Would it help add a bug submission page to help submit bugs (ask OS/Browser/Service pack/etc)?

I don't care much for IE, rest of MS I have nothing against
I use XP at home, and Office is a normal tool for me, and I still think Excel is one of the best programs ever mare

The prize is just a bit salty normally....

wit_, I also hate sites that use IE-specific features. Just pointing out reality. There once was a poll on the front page of WBW that asked what browser people were using. I can't find how to view it now, but to the best of my memory, it was about 2/3-rds of WBW visitors using IE.

I've been saying the same thing for years and years now Wit_.

Have made some performance with database tweaking.. Back to tweaking on the DB

But this site has a rather good ratio of mozilla users due to the massive amount of civilizing made by many members here.
It's much easier to change to a different browser if there are always people ready to help you if you have problems

System(s)

Win2k, SP4, IE, FireFox
Win XPPro SP1, IE, FireFox
Win XPPro, SP2, IE, FireFox, Netscape

Here is one that I am seeing consistently on "Quick Replies".

After submitting a "Quick Reply". you are presented with the "You will be directed page... Click here if it takes too long" page. If I wait to be redirected, the URL is often wrong and has an extra slash on the end of it. Like the following,

http://www.whatboyswant.com/forum_read/495524/3//
which should have been
http://www.whatboyswant.com/forum_read/495524/3/

So I am redirected to a page that does not exist.

I have never encountered the malfunction you described Saxon

@wit_ - Sorry to disagree. But many/most of us would not switch. On a daily basis, I use Netscape, FireFox, Opera, etc (we have to support all of them) and still prefer IE over all of them. Most people find IE at least equal (according to my companies user polls) to the aforementioned browsers, so for most of us there is no reason to switch. Not trying to stir things up, but there are learning curves with everything and unless a software app is far superior I don't see to many reasons to migrate.

Back on topic.

2 points.

1. A page written **generically** will be satisfactory on ever browser.
2. I have witnessed all of my submitted bugs on IE, FireFox and Netscape.

(offtopic)

Be a little wary of the FireFox Version 1 Pre-release. I uninstalled FireFox and re-installed the V1 PR and it the install crashed on two seperate machines (2K and XP) and when it did finally install it woudld not let me log on to WBW!! I guess the third time is a charm as it seems to be working now on this 2K box.

:: Back on topic ::

I can see quite a few.

1. Its outdated, and stagnant.
2. Its lacking in features that have been on alternative browsers for months if not years before.
3. Its a security hole, every week they find another large security gap that puts the average IE user at risk. Heres the latest.
4. It lacks expandability and functions that others have had for a while now.
5. Its buggy and resource hogging.
6. IE cheats and ignores W3C's specifications.

Its not that hard to migrate from one browser to another unless you're totally incompetent and can barely turn a machine on let alone plug it up. The only things I like from Microsoft are their keyboards and mice, and their Games Division (they are Mac heads there). Oh and Microsoft Office 2004 isn't so bad now.