is the new ie good?

**markman** · Aug 30th, 2001, 06:45 PM

Has anyone tried out the new IE6?

**filburt1** · Aug 30th, 2001, 06:46 PM

Yeah, it's cool. No stability issues (that's what you get for Windows 2000

) and it blocks cookies from Doubleclick, Admonitor, etc.

**aknisely** · Aug 30th, 2001, 06:55 PM

Page redirects no longer work, I don't know if I ****ed that up or if it's IE6. It's really annoying here when it is used so extensively. Anyone?

**filburt1** · Aug 30th, 2001, 06:56 PM

I dunno what you're talking about.

Do you have Javascript--oh, sorry, Active Script

--on?

**aknisely** · Aug 30th, 2001, 06:57 PM

Yeah, but redirects are META refresh tags, not javascript.

**filburt1** · Aug 30th, 2001, 06:57 PM

Got an example of a page?

**aknisely** · Aug 30th, 2001, 07:03 PM

It's used everywhere, but when you submit a reply to a post on vBulletin, it brings you to this "Thanks for posting your reply, you will now be redirected..." page. The line for that, placed neatly in between the <head></head> tags is:

Code:

<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="20;URL=http://www.disney.com">

In that example, the browser would hold you at the page for 20 seconds, then automagically load up Disney. It doesn't work for me.

**filburt1** · Aug 30th, 2001, 07:13 PM

The board still works fine for me, including those redirects.

**aknisely** · Aug 30th, 2001, 07:15 PM

It's probably not the board, I've just got a switch or checkbox or something somewhere that's not where it should be.

**markman** · Aug 31st, 2001, 02:18 PM

but do you recommend it? is it worth a d/l?

**filburt1** · Aug 31st, 2001, 02:22 PM

If you have broadband, everything is worth a download just for the hell of it.

Seriously, yes, I have liked it so far.

**aknisely** · Aug 31st, 2001, 05:45 PM

<bump>

**chrisjk** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:33 PM

So if, for aurguments sake, my name was Mr. 56k and I didn't live anywhere near Mr. ADSL or Mrs. Cable, would one recommend the transfer of IE6 from MS to my good self? How much weight does this browser carry?

**aknisely** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:34 PM

It really doesn't make any change to the handling of the protocol (HTTP and FTP), only to the interface.

Mr. 56k and I didn't live anywhere near Mr. ADSL or Mrs. Cable

That's Page 56K, Sir ADSL and Baroness Cable.

Can anyone solve my problem?

**chrisjk** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:44 PM

Originally posted by aknisely
That's Page 56K, Sir ADSL and Baroness Cable.

Excuse my rudeness your worships

**aknisely** · Aug 31st, 2001, 06:58 PM

So pardoned.

**Bloodeye** · Aug 31st, 2001, 08:03 PM

I believe it's 52 mb's if that's what you were asking for.
I posted another IE 6 thread in chitchat a couple of days ago. The thread has a link to a site that explains how to d/l IE 6 without having to use Microsoft's online d/l procedure...

**markman** · Sep 1st, 2001, 07:24 AM

does anyone have a collection of screenshots?

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