Urbanoutlaw Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) I don't think anybody likes IE, have you tried Firefox (free download)? Edited June 6, 2007 by Urbanoutlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 It's all well and good saying that but the fact is 70% of all visitors are using Internet Explorer 6 since it comes with Windows XP. And unless we want to turn 70% of our visitors away from the site, we need to have the site work on all browsers. Is that "the fact"? Do you have the stats to prove that? Do you mean for tgtap or for the entire Internet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 The entire internet, if you look over any websites statistics on visitors it would be the same if not similar. I'm going from what I now and what I have read in reports before, and if you look at it the proof is there. Either way, we will be making it work for all browsers, we would be committing fan site suicide if we didn't. I'm sure Chris would agree that it is important we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I don't think anybody likes IE, have you tried Firefox (free download)? Yes. And I'm one of the few people who dislike FF. I prefer IE by far and have never had any troubles with it, ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Really? No problems? Problem. Problem. The only people who don't like Firefox are: 1)Poor and don't have the money to get a decent amount of ram (at least 512mb) that you should have anyway OR 2)Are retarded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanoutlaw Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Jace - If IE works for you, go with it. I just hate microslop & their philosophy of wanting us buy buy all new soft & hardware every couple of years . Chris's gonna finish the overhaul on time to sort issues w/ Vista if he's not already fighting with it. BTW Chris, good luck with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 7, 2007 Author Share Posted June 7, 2007 Let's not turn this into a browser war, there's probably already one in the computer chat forum if that's what you want. I WILL sort out the problem, obviously. It's not my top priority right now though. However, for the time being, if YOU are using the downloads beta and prefer to use IE as your browser, please do consider upgrading to IE7 if you're using anything less that that. Some sites like to display "Optimised for Mozilla Firefox" images, or another browser - this is a result of VERY poor web design skills, if you're a web designer you should ensure your sites work in ALL browsers, not just one, you should never force people into using something they don't want. Encourage and discourage all you like, just don't force. Myself being a web designer I do my best to ensure The GTA Place is compatible in as many browsers as possible. I own Mac, Windows and Linux machines and so can personally test a lot myself. However, being security concious, I usually always use the latest versions, which is why I need people like you, who aren't necessarily using latest versions to help beta test. You have already helped me by notifying me of a bug in IE6 and below. If I didn't get you guys to test it, I would never have found it. Browsers I personally test are the following: Windows: Firefox 2 Opera 9.2 IE 7 Netscape 8.1 Mac Firefox 2 Opera 9.2 Safari 2 Camino 1.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Well I suppose I can test IE6... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share Posted June 8, 2007 OK that would be helpful. Oh and tonight I finished the stats page which seems to be working as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanoutlaw Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Apologies, didn't mean to set anything off. If you have a minute, will the upgraded download section get along w/ Vista or do you know yet? Also are there any threads on running Linnux, if so could you point me in that direction, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share Posted June 8, 2007 Yeah it's not operating systems that cause problems it's the browsers themselves, currently IE6 and versions below that are the only ones not working. Vista comes with IE7 so everything will work fine I doubt there's any threads here about Linux, or indeed Mac for that matter. You see since everyone here is for GTA, almost every single one of us are Windows users (for playing GTA on our PC's with mods etc.) I personally have a Mac as well as a Windows PC though, and have tried a couple of Linux distros in the past. Look in the computer & tech forum, there's probably nothing there but you could always start a topic about it, if I'm not being lazy/busy I may reply myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Noticed that I said I never had probs with it. And I've got no idea how someone else can get, you just need a little protection. And duh MS wants you to upgrade. You wouldn't want to still use hardware of 5 years ago or Windows 95 now would you? @Chris: You could say that users who have difficulty with the download system for whatever reason should upgrade to IE7 (+link). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share Posted June 8, 2007 I could but there are still people using OS's such as windows 2000 where upgrading to IE7 isn't possible. It's best just to get it fixed anyway, which I will do. One thing I missed of the to do list was all the tutorials I need to write, added them all now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Ow, right. I still have a unfinished tut for TGTAP somewhere in my special GTA place folder. Might try finishing that this weekend, though I'm probably going to be to busy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killa killer Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Really? No problems? Problem. Problem. The only people who don't like Firefox are: 1)Poor and don't have the money to get a decent amount of ram (at least 512mb) that you should have anyway OR 2)Are retarded Your the f***ing retard for adding all those toolbars you tool. they suprisingly don't make it go any faster despite what my brother belives clicking in vein to try and win those stupid ad games trying to make the page load faster. firefox is for diks with 1 finger and 1 thumb. try using just the google one it has a translater and everything i need all in 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM™ Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 (edited) Your the f***ing retard for adding all those toolbars you tool.they suprisingly don't make it go any faster despite what my brother belives clicking in vein to try and win those stupid ad games trying to make the page load faster. firefox is for diks with 1 finger and 1 thumb. try using just the google one it has a translater and everything i need all in 1. You are seriously acting like a Idiot right now, because not that I'm the only one using Firefox here, almost half of the members on the forum are using it too, Including the admin as well. It's much more securer than IE6, and has some add-ons. So really I think you have to get Firefox since you can't even spell. Other than that, Nice work on the front page Chris. It's starting to look good. Edited June 10, 2007 by Tommy Montana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 As already stated, enough with the "my browsers better then your browser" crap, as Chris said it will support all browse, so case closed, move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 10, 2007 Author Share Posted June 10, 2007 Your the f***ing retard for adding all those toolbars you tool.they suprisingly don't make it go any faster despite what my brother belives clicking in vein to try and win those stupid ad games trying to make the page load faster. firefox is for diks with 1 finger and 1 thumb. try using just the google one it has a translater and everything i need all in 1. Nice troll, idiot. That image is simply an example as to how your browser will get if you click Yes on all the popups etc. for installing toolbars from generally malicious websites. And toolbars make your browser go slower not faster, that's obvious, anything you add to a browser will slow it down - it is not in the least bit surprising. Also, Google make the google toolbar for IE and Firefox, so in fact your whole trolling rant is rendered obsolete. GTFO this topic. Next person to make browser war references in this topic gets perma b&. The only browser comments I want are those reporting bugs (such as the fuck up in IE6). Other than that thanks for the comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Ok so in IE6, the top part of the database shows up (Newest downloads, Most popular tables, etrc...) But then there is a large bank space and at the bottom of the site there is the 'Category' table. Perhaps it's because IE doesn't want there to be a large blank space beneath the downloads tables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killa killer Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 (edited) I'm going to be on subject this time CHRIS today I went and tried to find some cool stuff for vice city and those pictures next to the titles were broken BTW i've got IE7 Edited June 13, 2007 by killa killer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2007 Author Share Posted June 17, 2007 @killa: not sure what your problem was but it's all working fine on all browsers I've tested. Today I did a very small update, and that is that the system now recognises when you are logged in, and so you don't have flood control on searches any more - only guests (if not logged in) are subject to flood control which is currently once every 30 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 Another small update today. You can now rate files from directly on the file page (this functionality will be improved but it works fine for now). I've also moved the system out of the beta directory now that all the basic functionality is there (all that's really left to go is the administration and user pages), and it's all had enough testing from you guys now. So, http://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Looking pretty sweet so far, i'm assuming the colour scheme willbe aligned with the rest f the site....? But good job so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Looking pretty sweet so far, i'm assuming the colour scheme willbe aligned with the rest f the site....?But good job so far... Nope, it has it's own colour scheme Chris and I worked on. I don't think were gonna make it generic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 3, 2007 Author Share Posted July 3, 2007 Yeah, although it still isn't definitely final, but pretty much. POssibly revamping the layout of TGTAP over the summer anyway, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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