re: Still think your browser isn't obsolete?
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
gewg wrote:
||with portable devices becoming a huge factor,
||least-common-denominator pagefeeds are becoming ever more important.
||(Some sites have separate pages specifically for phones/handhelds.)
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Arminius wrote:
|Yeah ok. I see your point.
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I don't think so. More below.
|I don't even bother carrying a cell phone.
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Nor do I. I have sworn off corporations with outrageous business models
and the cartels can eat my shorts.
|To people who line up all night to be among the first to get the latest iPhone
|I can see where this would be important.
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You missed my point.
These pages don't check to see if you are actually using a handheld.
If all you need is text, you can access these pages with ANY hardware/software.
The pagefeed you get has fewer (no?) graphics and fewer (no?) scripts.
Click anything here for an example:
http://google.com/search?q=site:slashdot.org/palm
An even better trick that I use is to call up the Google Cache of a page
and append &strip=1 to the URL.
If you've clicked a significant number of my links,
you've probably noticed that there are a lot of pages that load really fast
and contain nothing but text.
There can be a latency problem.
Google doesn't put up a Cached link until 24 hours after the page is published,
so you can't use this with e.g. breaking news.
...and sometimes the Cached links are just plain broken. 8-(
||fanboy
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|There is plenty I grumble about when it comes to MS[...]
|When MS ends support for a product
|they should be required BY LAW to release a service pack
|which includes all the fixes that were released since the previous service pack
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Dreamer. M$ (like all megacorps) is beyond the law (at least in the USA).
I expect them to get pounded in the EU for their "random" browser choice screen.
Of course, they could glom onto their usual escape tactic:
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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