Re: TECH: Browser problems and solutions (was Re: Of Haa/hhet & other matters (was: mu for [N]))

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:10:48 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

> Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:38:09 +0100, Henrik Theiling
>> <theiling@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I must check whether my browser can display them.  It is *very* *bad*
>> > (tm) with Chinese Pinyin accents.  Aweful.  And I want it to look good
>> > in my browser, of course. :-)
>>
>> If you've got a bad browser, change your browser.
>
> Please don't tell me.
Sorry.

>     a) I love this browser, if anything can be adjusted, I'll adjust
>        that first.  People making lousy, buggy webpages (especially my
>        bank and my internet provider) keep telling me to change my
>        browser: no.  I love it.
I sympathise, I really do. Certain sites break Opera -- or at least fail
to display correctly, and it breaks my heart to load a secondary browser.

>     b) Actually, I do know I need a new one, but to install it, I need
>        a new Linux system, since the modern stuff does not compile
>        easily and is not found precompiled on the net and I hate to
>        play admin.
I take it you don't have apt-get installed.

Do you have an RPM-based Linux? There are apt-get RPMs for a lots of
Linuxen, and from that point, it's a one-command process to upgrade almost
everything on your system (well, every RPM, and any non-custom kernel). Of
course, you need either bandwidth or time.

I've never tried to manually build apt-get, but I suspect it's a lot of
up-front effort, though it'll probably be worth it if you can find the
time and energy.

>> I find the best Unicode support is provided by the Opera browser
>> running (sad to say) on Windows.
>
> I do not want any discussions about which operating system is better.
Indeed not. This is not the time, and most certainly not the place. In
fact, about the only place I *would* feel comfortable taking that
discussion is the "heated_debate" community on Live Journal, and I'm not
even sure it would go over well *there*.




Paul