You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Chrome and Firefox both have built-in pdf readers now anyway
The former has some proprietary thing; the latter has the aforementioned pdf.js
The latest versions of Opera let you install pdf.js easily too
A lot of sites that make PDFs don't give you links that you can click to save. They may have interstitial/redirect pages and then try to throw the PDF into a frame with its own properties or stuff. Especially if they want to discourage you from saving it.
I actually had to install acroread here to read a PDF that nothing, nothing else here could read. Apparently they changed how forms work in PDF 1.7, and poppler is still trying to catch up.
something that causes PDF files to be downloaded into individually manipulable files directly rather than being opened in the browser, is a feature
i can kind of go either way. i like easily being able to look up papers i've read before, on my hard drive, but sometimes i don't really need to keep a copy of some powerpoint inexplicably presented as a pdf
A lot of sites that make PDFs don't give you links that you can click to save. They may have interstitial/redirect pages and then try to throw the PDF into a frame with its own properties or stuff. Especially if they want to discourage you from saving it.
most in-browser readers have a save button in them, which will handily defeat all this bullshit.
My uncle's first computer (well, his employer's) has a whopping 4 kilobytes of magnetic core memory and filled a room. People really did amazing stuff with weak hardware back in the day.
nobody with any html/css/anything experience whatsoever considers ie6 to work well or be useful
at any rate I think the English-speaking internet's mostly been weaned off ie6 and it's mostly the parts of China still running off pirated XP that uses it
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Aliroz, you do realize that running IE6 is one of the WORST possible things you could be doing when it comes to security, right?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I love how it's MICROSOFT that's running a site dedicated to getting people off IE6
Even they don't want to be stuck with piece of shit anymore
Aliroz, you do realize that running IE6 is one of the WORST possible things you could be doing when it comes to security, right?
Look, if I could run such a high-end browser as IE6, I would; but as it is, Novus Computador can run up to IE3, which has never crashed since I've used it.
My nextdoor neighbors use IE6 on their computer because it works for them.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Everything appears to be the same font, and I can't access the "write comment" "save draft" buttons, or anything like the font selector, the insert-link thing, the print thing, the cut thing. They don't show up. I've gotten good at learning to do stuff like write
< i m g s r c = " thingIwanttoshow. j p g " >, < i > stuff < / i >, < b > stuff < b > <b r >,
< b l o ck qu o te rel = "whoeverI'mquoting "> quoteyquoteyquotey </ b l ockquote>
Quote button doesn't work, nor the mysterious "flag" button (what even is that for? TO check something so you can read it later).
Some avatars cannot be displayed.
But hey, the page loads fast, doesn't crash, and most of the time I'm on HH I'm either on my mom's laptop or on a school computer.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oddly, the one old browser I've found unfit for using HH was, of all things, Firefox 2.
Most of you probably won't know what I'm talking about here, but if you have mod powers, a little "Options" button appears when you hover a thread title, and when you click it, it pulls down a little dropdown menu of stuff:
...But Firefox 2 has a rendering issue where the "Options" button is too wide...and it covers the entire post title. So you can't actually click on the link to open a thread, because it's behind the massive "Options" button.
It baaaasically renders the entire forum unusable unless you want to try navigating around for less obvious ways to get to threads.
Everything appears to be the same font, and I can't access the "write comment" "save draft" buttons, or anything like the font selector, the insert-link thing, the print thing, the cut thing. They don't show up. I've gotten good at learning to do stuff like write
< i m g s r c = " thingIwanttoshow. j p g " >, < i > stuff < / i >, < b > stuff < b > <b r >,
< b l o ck qu o te rel = "whoeverI'mquoting "> quoteyquoteyquotey </ b l ockquote>
Quote button doesn't work, nor the mysterious "flag" button (what even is that for? TO check something so you can read it later).
Some avatars cannot be displayed.
But hey, the page loads fast, doesn't crash, and most of the time I'm on HH I'm either on my mom's laptop or on a school computer.
I have gained so much respect for you doggedness reading this post.
Also, the flag button is for posts that break the site rules so that you can inform the mods...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Not to point out the obvious, but I kinda doubt Cygwin64 will run on Aliroz's Windows 95 machine.
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i much rather just have it download and open with foxit
The former has some proprietary thing; the latter has the aforementioned pdf.js
The latest versions of Opera let you install pdf.js easily too
There's no real need for the Adobe plugin anymore
$ yes "I whip my hair back and forth"Believe me, I wish I could use Virtualbox. VPC kinda blows.
Really though, the biggest annoyance is just that IE's debugger is beyond worthless, and it's even worse in pre-10.
My nextdoor neighbors use IE6 on their computer because it works for them.
< i m g s r c = " thingIwanttoshow. j p g " >,
< i > stuff < / i >,
< b > stuff < b >
<b r >,
< b l o ck qu o te rel = "whoeverI'mquoting "> quoteyquoteyquotey </ b l ockquote>
Quote button doesn't work, nor the mysterious "flag" button (what even is that for? TO check something so you can read it later).
Some avatars cannot be displayed.
But hey, the page loads fast, doesn't crash, and most of the time I'm on HH I'm either on my mom's laptop or on a school computer.