What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #6

zobraks

zobraks

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Purple Stickpin said:
Are the rest of you able to view these videos here?
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I'm not sure, since I've never played any of them. But I see the little YouTube television screens* (unfortunately). Firefox 32.0 here.
*these take quite some time to load on my old laptop

P.S. I'm not really interested in what other people like to listen/like to have other folks think they're listening, I regularly click on this thread only to keep the Movies, music, TV, art subforum shown as read. :p
If there was an "mark this thread as read" option I'd never check it (like I never check the similar threads on other forums). Really.
 
mjp

mjp

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Purple Stickpin said:
I've used IE for the past 15 years with very few complaints.
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If all you ever ate was McDonald's hamburgers you might also say, "I'm still alive, I can't complain." But you'd be missing out. ;)

IE has always been a few years behind the curve where browsers are concerned. And of course a few years here is a meat world lifetime. They are the last to adopt new technologies. Ask any site designer - we have dozens of lines of special code to try to coax IE to do things every other browser does natively. Back in the day people (me) would add code that detected IE and show those users a different page that basically told them to go download Netscape. It was that bad.

You can live a happy life using just IE, but you're seeing a different web than the rest of the world. If you're cool with that, hey, good. I have to use IE at work (4 tabs open), but it runs alongside Chrome (5 or 6 tabs open) and Firefox (12 tabs open), and I also open Opera every few days if I have to test something on a different browser.
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

mjp said:
You can live a happy life using just IE, but you're seeing a different web than the rest of the world.
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It looks a if accessing via chrome allows me to see the videos. However, I'm not sure I'm seeing a different web than the rest of the world. The site looks exactly like it did a few days ago when I could see the videos here when accessing via IE. I suppose I'll just use chrome when coming here and try it out occasionally to see if it really offers anything better than IE. Thanks for the help.
 
mjp

mjp

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Purple Stickpin said:
The site looks exactly like it did a few days ago when I could see the videos here when accessing via IE.
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Because the software does a lot of internal juggling to make it look the same in IE. Other sites/software may or may not.

IE is a lot better than it used to be, but it still has problems. If it didn't, the subject wouldn't have come up.
 
hoochmonkey9

hoochmonkey9

Art should be its own hammer.
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I hadn't listened to the Dead Kennedys in a while, or thought of them for that matter. But a few minutes ago I was wheeling my garbage can down the driveway and started singing this song.

So, obviously I had to immediately get on the internet and tell people about it.

 
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