Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 11/26/05 04:45

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:07:40 GMT, Michael Winter
<m.winter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>> Running away and putting up straw men isn't going to help you,
>> Coward.

>Running away? No, I didn't see the point in quoting your attempt to
>insult me.

I mix facts with insults, Child, you ran away.

>> [...] by all means, provide a SPECIFIC combination of OS and browser
>> that it DOESN'T work on [...]

>Firefox 1.0.7/WinXP
>
>You really don't understand the implications what I've written, do you?
>
>Now that you've been proven wrong, we can move on. I have no intention
>of playing your little games, and we both know that you'd never admit to
>being wrong.

The script was never meant to need to know the difference between
Firefox and Netscape as they both use the same engine, but hey, I'm
all about bitch slapping you:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/detect.html

Let me know if you want it to support any other specific browsers,
Child.

>> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/cbstory/
>>
>> Now tell me how I achieved the fade effect when you scroll the text.

>Using that little 'detect' script, you include a different HTML file
>containing a different variation on the script providing content if you
>think you found IE. That variant uses IE's proprietary filters

Those filters aren't proprietary actually, it's just other browser
makers choose to try and include their own half assed support rather
than rely on what's already on your system.

>in combination with AlphaImageLoader to render the (partially) transparent
>PNG, rather than relying on the browser to do that itself.

The browser itself doesn't do that in IE on the PC, Kiddo.

>I retrieved that alternative version through Firefox, by the way.

Of course you did, the script really only needs to tell the difference
between IE for Windows, IE for Mac and everything else.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net

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