autostaretx
Erratic Member
I'm wondering if TalkingHorse's example is showing the effect of some other software on his PC getting an oar in
(like an AdBlocker).
In IE (which i'm using right now), I see the top-of-page advertisements.
It's certainly possible he just hit one that was "all PNG".
Talking? Do you see many/most of the ads "properly", or are they all mangled like that?
Since IE can render PNGs it fetches from other sites, it's the pre-image handshaking that the forum is doing for its own PNGs that's messing it up.
I don't know who's drifting off-standard: it could be the forum is using an ancient "deprecated" protocol (or expecting some nuance to not be rigorously adhered to) or that IE whiffed part of the protocol. There still are many quirks that some old browsers accepted that the standards say
"don't to this!" about.
There's certainly some finger-pointing that needs to be done, but which way it points (and how bendy it is) remains to be seen.
Microsoft can/does/will certainly occasionally hide their collective heads under a blanket and mess up "following standards", but they really have been trying to do a better job of these years.
--dick
p.s. I just loaded and tried the Opera browser... it works properly (i.e. like Firefox, etc)
p.p.s. I'm running through a lot of cycles of "reload the page" with IE.... I still haven't had an advertisement mess up.
Whoops... twice in a row I got:
and the empty area didn't respond to clicking. (at least it's not showing the "bad grab" icon)
(like an AdBlocker).
In IE (which i'm using right now), I see the top-of-page advertisements.
It's certainly possible he just hit one that was "all PNG".
Talking? Do you see many/most of the ads "properly", or are they all mangled like that?
Since IE can render PNGs it fetches from other sites, it's the pre-image handshaking that the forum is doing for its own PNGs that's messing it up.
I don't know who's drifting off-standard: it could be the forum is using an ancient "deprecated" protocol (or expecting some nuance to not be rigorously adhered to) or that IE whiffed part of the protocol. There still are many quirks that some old browsers accepted that the standards say
"don't to this!" about.
There's certainly some finger-pointing that needs to be done, but which way it points (and how bendy it is) remains to be seen.
Microsoft can/does/will certainly occasionally hide their collective heads under a blanket and mess up "following standards", but they really have been trying to do a better job of these years.
--dick
p.s. I just loaded and tried the Opera browser... it works properly (i.e. like Firefox, etc)
p.p.s. I'm running through a lot of cycles of "reload the page" with IE....
Whoops... twice in a row I got:
and the empty area didn't respond to clicking. (at least it's not showing the "bad grab" icon)
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