October 3, 2005

  • I'd just like to take a moment and mention that

    Xanga sucks.

    Don't try to use the new photo editor thing on a Mac running IE 5.1. Don't try to use *anything* on a Mac running IE 5.1, but especially not Xanga's photo thing, because Xanga is too stupid to serve you pages you can actually use.

    I get the banner ads JUST FREAKIN' FINE, thank you very much, but it's too FREAKIN' bad I can't get anything DONE, isn' t it?

    Addendum. Just to be clear:

    IT USED TO WORK. NOW IT DOESN'T.

    If a person is developing software for the web, they shouldn't cripple the functionality of their software AT THE EXPENSE OF older standards. Which is to say:

    HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SNIFF BROWSERS AND USE THE OLD SYSTEM FOR OLD BROWSERS?

    And if you're too lazy to investigate that kind of thing, or if you're too lazy to ensure compatibility for older browsers which are still in widespread use, then YOU SHOULDN'T BE IN THE BUSINESS OF WRITING SOFTWARE FOR THE WEB.

    I'm not the villain here for using an old web browser on my parents' old Mac. If Xanga wants to make it a requirement that you have a new browser, then they're kind of violating the guiding principle of the web, aren't they?

    New features are neeto and swell, and I'm glad to see them. But if it means that I can't get at my photos at all, unless I get in the car and go to a cybercafé, then they aren't really features, are they? They're stumbling blocks.

Comments (9)

  • well yeah, but why use IE at all?

  • Xanga: A place to keep up with friends.

    Nothing more.

  • I use Flickr for all my image hosting now, but yeah -- why are you using IE on a Mac? The engine hasn't been updated in forever! If not firefox, then at least use Safari!

  • To respond to your addendum:

    As a former web developer, making sure IE works with a web page that also works in standards-compliant browser is a royal pain in the ass (because of stupid shit MS pulls in their software). Now, if the system broke in a regular browser I could understand, but IE? Hell, just getting IE to play nice with standard web code is a nightmare.

  • hey im sorry you are having complications.. ::better dayz ahead:: lol.. have a great nite..

    caity!!<33

  • well, yeah, I spose it wouldn't kill 'em to just put up a flat display of the images instead of that kooky javascript thing they've got going on.

  • oh are you just figuring out that xanga sucks? i've known that for years. but i'm not here for the software.

  • "I'm not the villain here for using an old web browser on my parents' old Mac. If Xanga wants to make it a requirement that you have a new browser, then they're kind of violating the guiding principle of the web, aren't they?"

    not really no.

  • Visit Wikipedia:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac

    Microsoft officially dropped support for IE in June of 2003. So it is your fault, for using a browser which has formally been unsupported for over 2 years.

    If you're using it on OS 9, you're using a non-shipping operating system that's been officially unavailable for sale for almost 5 years. Are we really supposed to hold technological advancement in stasis?

    Maybe we should all be using Lynx. It rocked pretty hard when I was in university.

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