IE 11

[JRS]

It's been awhile that I have spent more than a few minutes in Windows and a long time since I used IE. While building the Script BASIC 64 bit 2.2 release, I have been using IE 11 to monitor the forums. I have noticed that the images I have posted are elongated under IE 11 but look fine with Firefox. Has anyone else noticed this using Windows 7 and IE 11?

[Mike Lobanovsky]

Never used IE at all. Too many chances to catch unexpected malware and/or addware. My browser of choice is Firefox.

Metric distortions and incompatibilities are a constant headache for web content devs and not only from browser to browser but also in one and the same browser under different operating systems. For example, both AllBasic and OxygenBasic boards have the following glitch in my Firefox under elementaryOS:



while the button/text placement is perfect under all my Windows OS's and Mac OS X too. I've just trained myself not to notice it. Compared to the horrible web content proper that I come across every so often, these glitches are mere trifles.

[JRS]

That's not your browser, it's the News section size and maybe the hack I did to show the file date of Charles's WIP.zip. Click the collapse arrow in the upper right corner and watch the problem go away.

 Look at the www.scriptbasic.org/forum and it doesn't have the issue. I use Firefox as well. (Chrome second and if I have to (MS updates) I'll use IE)

[Mike Lobanovsky]

That's correct, John, my bad. I didn't notice the logo disappeared from the AllBasic board and reappeared on OxygenBasic.

I deleted my Chrome altogether a while ago after some unexpected update had removed the /\ and \/ buttons from its vertical scrollbars. I dislike unpredictability in standard system controls and uncontrollable updates too but this particular castration drove me totally mad.

[JRS]

If they don't return the arrows to their rightful places in a few days, I'm gonna delete this piece of communo-anarchist shitcode from my PC forever.

Works for me. (see attached) Maybe you deleted the wrong software. 

I use the arrow, page up/dn keys mostly.

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[Mike Lobanovsky]

No John, no deletion by mistake here. They deserved it all right. I think they overestimate their importance for Windows; and that happens only too often with Linux guys.

Chrome still doesn't work for me on any Windows platform I have. Perhaps you just didn't care to upgrade yours?

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[JRS]

I have the same problem as you on my WIndows 7 64 bit OS. I'm running the latest stable build on Ubuntu 64 bit. It just works there is all I'm saying.

[Charles Pegge]

I like the minimalist look of Chrome, but I see that Firefox has also adopted the same layout, and perhaps, is less inclined to conduct surveillance on us.

[Aurel]

Crome is the worst browser i have ever tried with this stupid look,
Firefox is ok but tend to be to heavy ...Opera is somehow little bit better buti prefer to
use K-Meleon gecko based browser for windows.