re: Saving Pictures -- The *Modern Browser* solution (et al)
Monday, January 21, 2008 at 9:31 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Arminius
(334 messages posted)
Ok gewg, you made your case. You talked me into installing a different browser. I
decided to give Opera a try.
You covered a lot of ground. I'll just leave a few comments about some of the things
you wrote.
"I also rejected Firefox (in favor of the Gecko suite)."
-I noticed some of the recent Linux releases are abandoning Firefox in favor of Gecko
as well.
"Definition of the Internet:
"A homogeneous network with a hetrogeneous infrastructure".
IOW, it's about **UNIVERSAL protocols**.
Translation: It's not supposed to matter what you run."
-The lack of "support for Win 98" by my ISP goes beyond that. It means no technical
support in the event of hardware problems for the modem or the Netgear Wi-fi adapter
that were included in the package despite the fact that Win 98SE drivers for these
hardware devices are readily available from the manufacturers website. Using Win
98 would make it harder to make a warranty claim in event of hardware failure. I
would have to demonstrate that the hardware did not function on one of the OS's "supported"
by the ISP, Win 2000, XP, or Vista. And just to give you an idea of what I am dealing
with, one of my ISP's tech support people didn't know that Win 2000 was on their
supported OS's list until I told him and he checked. I was later told by another,
they rarely ever come across a customer who uses Win 2000.
"I noted earlier this week
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1199853459
that ISP software is unnecessary and is universally crap."
-At least they got that part right. They installed little more than the hardware
drivers.
"I try to stay away from sites constructed by complete idiots
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.enteringthemindseye.com/boldventure.html
but the other page gave me no problems. (Again: using a Gecko-based browser.)"
-I think "complete idiots" is a bit harsh. I would say "complete amateurs", I have
been downloading mp3s from that site for over two years and would not have posted
the link if I had reason to believe there were any dangers at that site. It is a
family home page that belongs to some nice folks who do a respectable job but are
not experts.
"When I *do* have a problem with images
because of an anal-retentive site owner who defeats right-click,
SeaMonkey (nee Mozilla Suite) does all I ever need:
File; Edit Page (The integral HTML Editor--nee Netscape Composer--opens)."
-I figured out how to fix right-click problems by trial and error. I just save the
web page, open it in a text editor, and edit out the offending code.
Thanks for the detailed dissertation. Well, I already noticed one bug in Opera, not
being able to copy text from the web page and paste it elsewhere.
Arminius
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