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June 18, 2004
Movable Type Revises their Pricing, Browser Bitching

I just found out that Movable Type has revised their pricing and licensing for the new version, perhaps I'll be upgrading after all. Glad I didn't jump on it too fast, though right now I don't have an extra $70 bucks. I haven't even upgraded to the free version of 3.x yet, though, I like to let other people find the bugs first. Ironically several days before they switched to the new program I actually tried to buy a license but they had stopped selling 2.6x licenses because of the impending release of the new version.

I was playing with browsers earlier... I've been trying to determine which problems are Mac related and which are browser shortcomings. Been having a lot of IE problems lately, they haven't updated the Mac version in ages, I have a bad feeling about this... I've been playing with Mozilla, but can't seem to keep the damn bookmarks in place for some reason. But for example, I hit on two websites today that would not work correctly with IE, so I checked them out under Mozilla and Netscape.

B4RB.com has a cute logo and design, but under IE the flashing title at top kept manically refreshing my browser to the point nothing else would work correctly. OK under Mozilla and Netscape, though I couldn't get the webcams to load. (Missing plug-in).

Then I landed on Kadyellebee's wonderful site, and all of her type was shoved to the right column and the main column wasn't spacing correctly, lots of type overlap. Also most of her image links at the top were not even showing up under IE. Still some type overlap in the right column under Netscape, but at least I can read the main column and see the navigation. Oops, now I've gone to the main page and reloaded and things have stopped overlapping. Very strange... Just checked it in Mozilla and it's loading correctly in it (it was doing the same thing as Netscape). Why are Mozilla & Netscape sharing the same user profile? I hardly ever use either of them, but they seem to really be fighting with each other since I installed Mozilla.

I stopped using Netscape because so many pages wouldn't load correctly and now IE is giving me problems, I'm very confused. And no, I don't want to try Opera, besides having to pay for the damn thing I don't like the way it looks and it's buggy on my Mac. I'm going to bed now, this is giving me a headache...

Posted by Morticia at June 18, 2004 06:00 AM | TrackBack
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Posted by: Conservative Hater on June 21, 2004 09:33 PM

Just happened across your blog, but wanted to let you know that Microsoft no longer supports IE for the Mac. They announced a while ago that they will no longer be updating it. Mainly because of Apple's Safari which I use. If a web page designer only designs for the PC version of IE and doesn't use web standards (Microsoft does not support standards) then things won't show up right in Safari, but I rarely have that problem. You might want to give it a try.

Posted by: Snaps on June 21, 2004 11:13 PM

Yikes, don't go there... bad HTML and his popups ate the reply I was typing, now that's censorship! Refresh your palette at www.alternet.org, I was flipping through it earlier this evening.

I seem to remember reading something awhile back that IE was dying, must be why I downloaded all the alternative browsers (for the umpteenth time).

Mozilla seemed the most promising except for the bookmark problem, yesterday I downloaded it's upgrade, Firefox, but it just went bonkers crashing over and over again when I tried to install it. The times I've (been forced by my Mac) to use Safari it hasn't impressed me that much, but I haven't given it a fair trial really.

I hope Microsoft keeps working with Entourage, I've gotten very spoiled by it the last few years. And (knock on wood) it hasn't corrupted my mail archives like Netscape mail used to do regularly until I got sick of it...

I got fed up with Netscape (after using it for about 10 years straight) when the Gecko version came out, it was just a mess. And the older versions could not display weblogs and DHTML correctly. I guess it's back to it for awhile, though...

Posted by: Tish on June 22, 2004 03:29 AM
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