one long line

November 23, 2005 9:32 AM

I'm on an imac (os9) and whenever I open the comments section from the front page all I get is a long single line of text in the middle of the page. I tried monkeying with the cookies and it seemed to help, but I'm not sure which cookie controls the text for comments page. And the machine gives me all kinds of grief when I refuse cookies.
posted by Smedleyman to Bugs at 9:32 AM (13 comments total)

It might be useful to tell us which web browser you're using.
posted by gyc at 9:54 AM on November 23, 2005

Whoops, yeah. Internet explorer.
posted by Smedleyman at 10:24 AM on November 23, 2005

Whoops, yeah. Internet explorer.

5.1? A lot of stuff goes away if you make sure you are upgraded to the latest version your OS is capable of running. Beyond that, you can try trashing your preferences, but I would just reload the program to save time.
posted by thirteen at 10:28 AM on November 23, 2005

not to derail, but the new mefi is super messed up in ie 5.2 for mac (on 10.4.3). it involves a css positioning problem with ie that stacks columns instead of displaying them side by side (i.e. a conflict with margin-lefts and relatively wider widths of columns to the left)... maybe?
posted by phaedon at 10:44 AM on November 23, 2005

whoa, that is weird. It was working fine before in ie 5.2/mac. Must have been some stuff I added yesterday.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:00 AM on November 23, 2005

yeah, 5.1. I'll try to download some new stuff. Hmm... So how would I change columns?
posted by Smedleyman at 11:32 AM on November 23, 2005

You can't change columns. Is there a port of Firefox for OS9?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:42 AM on November 23, 2005

" Is there a port of Firefox for OS9?"

Nope. It's a work computer. Lotta restrictions.

It's cool. I'll live with it. Or beat on the machine until it does what I want. Thanks though. I'll ask our computer admin guy here what the deal is.
posted by Smedleyman at 11:44 AM on November 23, 2005

You can't change columns. Is there a port of Firefox for OS9?
posted by mathowie at 11:42 AM PST on November 23 [!]

I have to keep some OS 9 machines going around the office, and there is no good browser for them at this point. I have IE, Netscape 4.7, and Mozilla on all of them, and no single browser can do the job on those machines. One hits a wall, try the next browser and hope for the best.
posted by thirteen at 12:55 PM on November 23, 2005

It does work OK on Mozilla 1.3 on OS 9, which I'm using right now. Against my work restrictions. From a USB drive. E-mail me if you want more details, Smedleyman -- it's a *vastly* better browser, faster, and supports Gmail too.
posted by bonaldi at 12:59 PM on November 23, 2005

Opera 6.03 is also a pretty good OS 9 web browser.
posted by gyc at 1:15 PM on November 23, 2005

Opera 6.03 & Mozilla, eh? I'll give it a shot. I'm assuming bonaldi you have one of those nifty usb memory deals?
posted by Smedleyman at 7:49 PM on November 23, 2005

That, plus an awareness of the massive security holes in OS 9's multiple users.
posted by bonaldi at 4:27 AM on November 24, 2005