MOTM

I am getting some reports of a broken website link that I cannot get to
break for me.  If a couple of folks could go to my website
(www.wiseguysynth.com)
click on the Korg DSS-1 & DSM-1 link, and follow the page links to the new
PDF owners manual for the DSS-1, that would be super.  Let me know if it
works for you.

Larry
I hate computers.

Thanks.  I have a couple responding that it is OK.  So, maybe I am not as
web stupid as it sometimes appears.
Larry

Actually, don't take your dunce cap off yet - both DSS and DSM manual
links are broken for me (Firefox browser).

The urls in the link have a backslash instead of a forward slash in
one place.

Stooge Moe

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@i...> wrote:
> Thanks.  I have a couple responding that it is OK.  So, maybe I am
not as
> web stupid as it sometimes appears.
> Larry

Good eyes Moe.  Yep, that was it.   It works fine in IE, but the 
backslash is puked up by Firefox.    In Firefox, I replaced the 
backslash with a forward slash in the URL and it worked fine.

Microsoft....   ya gotta love it.    :-P



Andy



--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb" <mate_stubb@y...> wrote:
> 
> Actually, don't take your dunce cap off yet - both DSS and DSM 
manual

> links are broken for me (Firefox browser).
> 
> The urls in the link have a backslash instead of a forward slash in
> one place.
> 
> Stooge Moe
> 
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@i...> wrote:
> > Thanks.  I have a couple responding that it is OK.  So, maybe I am
> not as
> > web stupid as it sometimes appears.
> > Larry

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 17:58, gooboworks wrote:
> Good eyes Moe.  Yep, that was it.   It works fine in IE,
> but the backslash is puked up by Firefox.    In Firefox,
> I replaced the backslash with a forward slash in the URL
> and it worked fine.
>
> Microsoft....   ya gotta love it.    :-P

I was told that IE allows all kinds of sloppyness from the 
web programmer, like unbalenced tags, backslashes and more 
stuff like that. On top of that they added unique html 
features. All of that is of course not following the 
standard. And of course, a web page developed for IE won't 
run well on the other browsers that follow the standard. 
And of course that's what M$ wants. Bleh. :(

- Robert

Moral of the story:

If you have put up a website of any kind, even if it's a single page -
DON'T USE IE TO TEST WITH. At least run your site against other
browsers first, and run IE last. With the excellent Firefox browser
now in full release, there's no reason for discriminating surfers and
web builders to be running Internet Exploder any more anyway. 
 
Moe
http://www.hotrodmotm.com

> I was told that IE allows all kinds of sloppyness from the 
> web programmer, like unbalenced tags, backslashes and more 
> stuff like that. On top of that they added unique html 
> features. All of that is of course not following the 
> standard. And of course, a web page developed for IE won't 
> run well on the other browsers that follow the standard. 
> And of course that's what M$ wants. Bleh. :(
> 
> - Robert

Slash this, slash that.  Give me a big old hatchet and I'll slash some
stuff.

Thanks to everyone for their help.  I'm off to sort more cables and do some
reverse slashing.

Stand clear.
Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: gooboworks [mailto:andy@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:59 AM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] Re: I need a small favor




Good eyes Moe.  Yep, that was it.   It works fine in IE, but the
backslash is puked up by Firefox.    In Firefox, I replaced the
backslash with a forward slash in the URL and it worked fine.

Microsoft....   ya gotta love it.    :-P



Andy

> > Good eyes Moe.  Yep, that was it.   It works fine in IE,
> > but the backslash is puked up by Firefox.    In Firefox,
> > I replaced the backslash with a forward slash in the URL
> > and it worked fine.
> I was told that IE allows all kinds of sloppyness from the
> web programmer, like unbalenced tags, backslashes and more
> stuff like that. On top of that they added unique html
> features. All of that is of course not following the
> standard.

As if there were just one "standard" and one revision of that standard to
follow.

> And of course, a web page developed for IE won't
> run well on the other browsers that follow the standard.
> And of course that's what M$ wants. Bleh. :(

I've got to pipe in here because as much as I like to bash Microsoft
myself, this is just undeserved.

There are no saints in the browser arena. Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla,
Safari, etc... all have oddities that make them not work properly in
certain conditions. IE Is very forgiving of crappy HTML, the other
browsers less so most likely because it's harder to make rendering code
that will accept marginal HTML.

-->Neil

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Neil Bradley             "The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of
Synthcom Systems, Inc.    our marketing combined with the stupidity of our
                          people.." -  Bill Maher

One word of warning about IE though.  It is well known in IT circles 
that IE is one of the biggest security holes on your system (win only.) 
  I know a lot of extremely geeky folks who shudder at the thought of 
using that application anywhere other than an intranet.

Firefox seems to be gaining a lot of ground these days and it's safe to 
use.  Plus you can't beat the tabbed windows.

Of course you have to test web pages in lots of browsers, IE is no 
exception.  Then there's Safari which breaks in completely different 
ways from all other browsers partly because it's identified differently 
from your standard mozilla browser.  <sigh>

- chris


On Dec 8, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Neil Bradley wrote:

> I've got to pipe in here because as much as I like to bash Microsoft
> myself, this is just undeserved.
>
> There are no saints in the browser arena. Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla,
> Safari, etc... all have oddities that make them not work properly in
> certain conditions. IE Is very forgiving of crappy HTML, the other
> browsers less so most likely because it's harder to make rendering code
> that will accept marginal HTML.
>
> -->Neil

Chris Walcott
Chief Engineer
Fake Science
email: chris@...
website: www.fakescience.com
phone: +1.510.336.1241

there are no saints but there are certainly devils. IE is one of 
them, not just for non-adherence to standards, but also to gross 
incompatibilities with itself across versions and platforms.

anyway this is OT so i'll leave it there....

>I've got to pipe in here because as much as I like to bash Microsoft
>myself, this is just undeserved.
>
>There are no saints in the browser arena. Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla,
>Safari, etc... all have oddities that make them not work properly in
>certain conditions. IE Is very forgiving of crappy HTML, the other
>browsers less so most likely because it's harder to make rendering code
>that will accept marginal HTML.
>
>-->Neil