On Mon 08 May, Paul Vigay wrote:
In article <Marcel-1.53-0507165650-06c9GWx(a)riscpc.local>,
Mike Gilbert <admin(a)lewisgilbert.co.uk> wrote:
> This site is unusable in NetSurf. All I get is links saying "Enable
> <panel>" and telling me I must have cookies enabled. To me, it seems a
> good demonstration of Vincent Flanders' (See
www.webpagesthatsuck.com)
> contention that compliance with standards doesn't imply good design or
> usability. I wasn't aware that I didn't have cookies enabled in NS, and
> can't see how to enable them if they aren't.
I did report it here last week. It's due to the broken cookie support in
NetSurf at the moment. It does work (of sorts) here, but seems very
intermittent, so I don't think NetSurf is correctly reading/writing the
cookies. Best bet is to delete the cookies file in NetSurf, when click on
the 'Enable all panels' link, which should turn them all on, then quit and
reload NetSurf. It should then work ok, but you probably won't be able to
turn them on or off properly.
All of which is a bit of a palaver, and I really can't be bothered.
I've started to use NS more and more, mainly because it's useful for
testing CSS.
As an aside, I thought you were against the sort of thing that cookies
represent? I'll stand by the Flanders comment. If your site won't
downgrade gracefully, then it's as bad as those that flash up a banner
telling you you need to have IE.
Fresco and Oregano work fine though. :-)
Yes, but they're both dead. How does Lynx cope?
M
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