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Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

VxJasonxV — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:23:04 -0000

Just like I tell everyone else.
Click Feedback, type away with as much details as possible.
So far as I hear, you're one of their special beta testers (as witnessed by your custom header). Surely your input matters and has hopefully already been given :-).

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Farooq — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:01:10 -0000

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/i...

really good stuff...something i definitely want and would make Windows a lot more stable:

- applications that don't need an install...drag and drop and run! if MS Office can do this on the Macintosh...why can't it do the same on Windows?

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Christopher Coulter — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:31:48 -0000

Hahahah, whata entertaining sideshow. CMS gone back to the stone age.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Innocent Bystander — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:46:22 -0000

As a guy who leads javascript development for a website, I have to say that IE is a terrible browser with a lot of bug and we spend an awful lot on working around its peculiarities.

We also don't develop using IE, we develop using FireFox because it has a useful debugger and gives good error messages. Then we back-port to IE.

This is because IE is the WORST browser on the internet with more than 1% of users. Please, fix your thing.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Kenneth Rohde — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:29:28 -0000

What exactely made you choose WordPress over other services like MSN Space, MovableType, TypePad, LiveJournal, etc.... I've recently started blogging and I'm not entirely happy about BlogSpot, so im thinking about moving as well......Hence my question asking why WordPress over others......

http://kenacious.blogspot.com or www.rohdeonline.com

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Brandon Paddock — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:12:19 -0000

Wow, who is this "Cody" person. Looks like Scoble gets new trolls all the time. It's hard to keep track of them!

"Isn’t it ironic how someone at MICROSOFT is complaining about bugs in the software? "

How is that ironic? That's not ironic at all. You might think it's funny, but that's about as ironic as that stupid Alanis Morisette song.

As for using IE, many of us prefer it to Firefox. Despite your claim, people who use IE aren't therefore stupid. I use Maxthon for my daily browsing activities, although I use IE6 and IE7 a lot in my work.

Despite what you may think, using a non-Microsoft browser does not make you "l33t." It doesn't make you smart, it doesn't make you cool.

Firefox is a fine choice of browser. But so is IE.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Farooq — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:46:44 -0000

http://www.applematters.com...

Headline: iMac Stepping Stone To An Entertainment Thin-Client?

what do you think Scoble...I sincerely hope Microsoft is firing on all cylinders in this period...because not only are they getting competition from everywhere, their competitors are becoming smarter by the day...

why I want to root for MS...cause, in an about-turn some may say, Microsoft's solutions these days turn out to be closely related to what consumers really want as well...just that other companies getting a bigger bite at the table w.r.t coolness, perhaps?

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

wesley — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:34:19 -0000

Just to shake things up ive decided to make a post that is on topic. It would appear that the bug has been fixed. Thats all.

Cya.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

zhaol — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:52:58 -0000

Hi, I see. That's Matt help you did the configuration. No entry to do this for common users. :( May I customize my template more than just colors?

I do submit a lot of Feedbacks to the "Dear Admin". Hope those help.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Farooq — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:38:02 -0000

btw my computer is only 2 years old...so if u're thinking serves him right for using a 20 year old machine...then don't :)

the way i want it: C: for all your OS, programs etc related stuff...D: for all your data...so even if I'm making a website in Macromedia the default location for the saved webpages should be D:

i'll deal with the things later if I have to move to C: for some specific stuff...

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Farooq — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:17:24 -0000

hey Scoble...for the first time in 10 years, my computer's primary internal hard drive crashed...i lost some good data there...just wanted to say this about Vista:

I hope Microsoft allows users to set the default partition in Vista...so Documents & Settings > User Profile > User Name > My Documents etc could be set on D:

I know you can set My Documents to default to the D: partition, but I have multiple users on my computer and since my documents is located outside my user profile, I can't hide it from other guests who would log on my computer...

so let's hope this stuff improves in Vista...

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:17:51 -0000

To all who want to help improve Wordpress.com and WordPressMU, which in turn helps to improve the future release of WordPress 1.6, the FEEDBACK button is in your Administration Panels.

On every panel. Look in the upper right corner, just below the "Howdy, your name" and SIGN OUT.

As you have noticed, this is a very exciting community to be a part of and it is helping all WordPress users now and in the future to create a better product. I think it's a brilliant method for really incorporating users' needs to have hundreds and maybe even thousands participate in the process. We all have a say in how this works.

Sure there are limits to wordpress.com. Since we are all working in a giant laboratory, the lack of control over Themes, plugins, and javascripts and styles within the post act as a controlled environment, testing the parts of the program the developers can control, not the parts we users can tweak with and mess up. We just all have to learn to live with the temporary constraints, bugs and glitches as the software is changing even as I type this comment.

With things changing all the time, I compare it to blogging inside of a Cracker Jack box. Every day a new surprise. Very exciting to be on the cutting edge of this hot technology, even as the knife's blade is being sharpened.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Phillip Molly Malone — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:38:49 -0000

Cody,
Somewhat true except for two things:
1) Bandwidth cost (not great in Australia)
2) Reliablity. If you have a 5 year old and 14 month old, Reliablity sucks!
3) (I lied) Cost of running it. (Power, etc)

Molly

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Matt Gerlach — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:13:49 -0000

While it can do that, I would watch out.

Say you get traffic like scoble does, my former ISP (I went off to college at Syracuse University) was Optimum Online. They are NOTORIOUS for the caps. She would be capped and her blog would be done in a second.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Cody — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:55:48 -0000

Molly: You're computer can act as a server. All you need is broadband and you're set.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Bob Schmidt — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:34:56 -0000

Agree with the above comment, Blogger is so much better. Plus the integration with Picasa & MS Word gives you multiple post creation options.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Happy and Blue2 — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:16:01 -0000

Your post was interesting.
The comments were priceless, ha,ha..

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Phillip Molly Malone — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:50:54 -0000

Coby, sometimes its not an issue of skill but of finances!
If you give me a free server and free bandwidth, I am sure I can set it up. In fact if you where going to do that, maybe I might write my own. Wouldn't be as good as any available but would be a fun experiment.

Lorelle, although you were probably not talking to me directly, I think your points are a good one and I will enter some feedback on this.

Molly

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

gaby — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:02:08 -0000

I like http://opera.com but I just type links by hand <a href=" and drag the url from the toolbar, not a lot of work? What could go wrong?

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

scobleizer — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:25:16 -0000

Lorelle: I will do. I didn't even realize that WordPress was not a "shipping" service. I would never have signed up for it if I had realized that. When I go to http://wordpress.com/ I don't see any reporting mechanism for bugs.

Finally, I didn't even see the Feedback panel. Now that you pointed it out to me, I'll send bugs in there.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Cody — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:08:20 -0000

Hey Molly, don't be a idiot. You can fully customize your template with WordPress, the only thing is you have to...OH NOES! Install WordPress yourself on a server! For God's sake, that's not difficult to do at ALL! But of course, most of Scoble's readers use IE and don't know anything about computers, so I guess it's to be expected that you wouldn't know a damn thing, either.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:49:45 -0000

1. Reality Check: wordpress.com is alphaware - please report all bugs and issues directly to the developers through the feedback.

2. The invite for wordpress.com might not have it in writing, but by participating, there is an expectation that you are also here to help develop the program. It's fun to play with a new toy, but you are in a position to help make that toy even better. Help by reporting to those who can do something about it rather than the public at large who can't help you.

3. By bringing the issue to the attention of the developers, everyone in the wordpress.com community benefits. By helping figure out your problem, you solve the problem of hundreds, maybe thousands of wordpress.com users' sites, and help make WordPress 1.6 much stronger when it is finally released. I take that responsiblity very seriously. I hope you do, too.

4. I am thrilled that you, Mr. Scoble, have entered the WordPress world and are helping WordPress gain respectability as an important user. I'm also thrilled that Matt and Donncha have bent over backwards to help you customize your wordpress.com Theme when NO ONE else on wordpress.com can. Show appreciation for such favors by reporting them to those who can help.

In other words, use the Feedback button in your Administration Panels rather than opening a wound publicly that may not heal.

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Phillip Molly Malone — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:18:52 -0000

Yep that looks like it. I am abit disappointed as I would love to use WP but don't want to have the lockin on the template (if I could accept that I would go to MSN Spaces!). In say this, don't blame the WP people, if there was a chance of Scoble coming to my service (if I had one), I would do something like this as well.

Oh well, looks like I am staying with Blogger!
Doh.
Molly

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Null Bit — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:06:40 -0000

Phillip, for your reference: http://faq.wordpress.com/20...

Re: WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Matt Mullenweg — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:12:09 -0000

Before anyone else calls Scoble crazy, this was fixed this morning so if you're not seeing it that's why. It was our bug, not a problem with IE.