Re: OT: browser hostile sites

John Barrett wrote:

"Jim Yanik" <jyanik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns98EADC79071DEjyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Robert Baer <robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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It is rare that i run into one of these crapsites: check out Datak
and EmcoHighVoltage.
The last one is so bad that only powerstrip shutdown is possible.
What the hell (about the site) is happening to do this crap?


What browser and version are you using? That may be the problem.
Either an older version or browser that doesn't support the newer web
language. I use Netscape 7,and some pages don't format right,left-side is
ofscreen and no scroll-left possible.I'm switching to Firefox,but some
sites don't support that either,I've read.Seems everyone is "standardizing"
on IE,whatever version is latest.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net


After years of swearing I would never give up IE -- I finally loaded firefox for one reason only -- too many IE hostile sites -- sites that load malware and adware to your system without your permission, and for no other reason than that IE has too many bloody security holes.. and too many of these breeze right by any protective software you might have installed (I run a virus scanner and 2 adware/malware blocker/scanner apps -- and I was STILL getting slammed !!)

got to the point that the powerstrip wasnt enough -- had to wipe and reload to get the crap off

Ya wanna know what sucks ?? I hit a site that was firefox unfriendly (html incompatible) so I loaded IE just that once -- and BOOM -- my file search function doesnt work any more !! I'll have to reload again to fix that one apparently because while one of my scanners found what got loaded (it couldnt stop it as it installed), it apparently didnt clean up EVERYTHING that got dumped on me

Go firefox asap -- and forget IE exists -- if a site isnt compatible with both browsers, its not worth accessing -- this from a former hardcore IE junkie



Thank you for the eloquent discussion *against* IE; i (almost) never use IE for those reasons, even tho i have not been "bit" with malware via IE.
I keep an offline *backup* (exact copy on another HD) for Mister Justin Case.
One (earlier) case of a browser hostile site was checked and IE indeed rendered the site "correctly"; the site owner claimed their code was "universal".
The only other times i used IE was to check compatibility of HTML code i wrote..*after* validation "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" as i found that there was one HTML "command" that W3C does not support but (apparently) all other browsers do support.
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