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[ceagle]

In sorta upbeat news though.,. suddenly (after MONTHS of broken), I seem to finally be able to CLICK on some buttons here at L.J. again.. whereas I've been having to do TAB-ENTER for ages just to get them to function...

Wow... I wonder if that will last.. or if it's actually a mistake they made which resulted in something working :D

Comments

[hastka.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I love the appropriate icon. :)

I've not had any issues with them (on script-blocked firefox), but I hope it keeps working for you!

[henriekeg.livejournal.com]

Same for me, never had any issues like that!

[aldi.livejournal.com]

A rare case of 2 wrongs making a right! ;-)

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hm! Never noticed any such problems here, but it's plainly a good thing that they've accidentally done this. ^_^

I do still wish OmniWeb were under active development, but the free browsers didn't leave enough of a market left over, despite being so good, straight out of the box, without the need for multiple add-ons. Tabs with (optionally) graphical thumbnails in a scrollable drawer make such good UI sense, versus the tedious text-only widgets beloved of every other browser.

I imagine the new iMac'll be a good thing for them anyway - I'd imagine the old one was PPC-based, which a lot of software left behind a while ago. Rather a pity, as the Altivec ISA was a joy to work with, versus the hotel-built-on-a-sandcastle Intel "architecture" - but, inevitable, given Apple was the only large customer making traditional computers with them. As a result, things like bus speed suffered terribly - unimportant for the masses of embedded users, or consoles, but crippling against what Intel was managing.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

OmniWeb... wow.. I remember that! I used MacWeb too, a bit, but it was never "quite right". Opera was all over the map, depending on the version, whether it would work well or not. And one of my customers uses SeaMonkey to this day!

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I started using OmniWeb back in yon Trilobyte days, on my NeXTstation there. =:D And I think there was something like SpiderWoman as well, but OmniWeb seemed better - that's what I used for my routine browsing on that system, and mostly Mozilla on the PB5300c. (Not a bad system, but rather hampered in performance, with the designers' bizarre lack of L2 cache. The Wallstreet that succeeded it in my "collection" was much faster than just the clock speed improvement, mostly due to that)

I've even used archie and gopher. ^_^; But that was in the days where the Uni didn't really offer net access freely, so we had to use a bit of a backdoor to get out to the internet gateway, and then into an external account on drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu. (Look, if I can barely remember what I ate yesterday, how come my brain insists on retaining the information that its IP addresses were 128.2.232.11 & 12? (It started off as one system, later split across two machines, data & lore))

I think I gave SeaMonkey a try, but it can't've clicked with me.. certainly, I was using OmniWeb on OS X as soon as I rediscovered it, and happily paid the original $30 tag, before they dropped it to $15, then free. (*sigh* again) Though I do keep a couple others in the Dock - WebKit (ie the nightly of Safari) and Firefox, as I've recently disabled Flash in OmniWeb's plugins, which occasionally causes me to have to call on another. Not as often as I'd thought, though, with about the only major exception being YouTube, which *insists* on trying to serve me Flash video about 2 in 3 times; even identifying as an iPad doesn't work, coming up with its iPad format page, but never any video. =:P I wonder if I could plead with OmniGroup to give a maintenance update to add support for Safari's extensions.. OW's very configurable, per-site, but not in regard to plugins, which can only be enabled or disabled for the whole application.