Internet Explorer 9 DOESN'T Work Here

[Tweety Bird]

Try using the alternative version of the post editor.

But please, please, do not look to me to "fix the sites problem". It is NOT a site problem. If you use IE9 and sites don't work, do me a favor, call microsoft, and politely tell them to "fuck off". I'll put it in nuts and bolts terms for you. Everyone else makes either metric or standard bolts. These would be firefox, chrome, opera, etc. Microsoft makes triangular shaped nuts that are in-between metric or standard sizes, but somehow it's your sockets fault that you can't get the nut off .

Sure, all the tool manufacturers could make all their sockets in triangle shapes in sizes like 9.666mm, 11.437mm, and you could get those Microsoft triangles off so you could swap hardware, but then it would be a pretty useless socket set.

Well, I've had exactly the same problem as FF. I quoted this post, and typed in my response, and the quote was all that got put up.

I've since switched back to IE8 as well, and it's working again (witness the way I can now edit this post).

You know, not all of us are computer geniuses. Not all of us are computer geeks or nerds, either. I, for one, spend my work day USING a computer but I no longer have any desire at all to know how the shit works behind the scenes; I'll leave THAT for you younger folks. But the most of the responses to the OP are not a lot of help. Largely, they're simply a swipe at MS (deservedly or not, I'm not going to judge), a defensive response, somebody with the "mine is better than yours" mentality, or blaming it on the operator (when many of us operators have no idea that it might be a simple security setting or, for that matter, how to turn the goddamn thing off).

How about a simple suggestion, such as "Uninstall the IE8 upgrade". Or, something like, "Google Chrome works for me". But most of the replies here were worthless. And it's one of the reasons I spend less time every day on the internet because I get tired of dealing with the "experts" out there who seem to expect everyone else to be an expert, too (unless, of course, somebody else's opinion is different from the said "expert").

[Justin]

Who writes a program to only work on IE?

Idiots.

I shouldn't need to point this out.

[Ah Pook]

Idiots.

I shouldn't need to point this out.

It was a rhetorical question. DUH!

[Delfuego]

Foxtrot,

Please don't tell me what I know or don't know, I am an IT professional and have 10 years experience with IT infrastructure and Microsoft products.

This thread was about whether co-ar15.com worked in IE9 and it does.

Your opinions are valid but your editorial on me is unwelcome and unnecessary.

Delfuego out...

[ldmaster]

"as a former IT professional"

Well, I never was an IT professionasl, I was a programmer. How long ago? Think assembler for 8088intel... CTOS and BCL and the first pascal compilers.

ALL programs are "buggy" some less so that others, some need experienced users to avoid all kinds of problems.

You write for the middle, the middle of the desires of the architects, the middle of the road of the internet and the middle of the road for users.

something ALWAYS breaks.

Microsoft isn't "guilty" neither is it "innocent" what they are is IN BUSINESS and as such they need to sell things, most notably - UPGRADES, especially to their bread and butter, government and business users - so in a particular "upgrade" they get improve functionality of one sort or another.

No answer in "IT" is absolute, it's all relative. which processor you used, which layer is accessed, which function library, etc... literally AD NAUSEUM..

Then someone with the time, figures out a workaround or a "solution" to a "problem" - all is well in Denmark.

But this argument about "IT professionals" vs "Users" has been going on since someone moved a couple of upgraded beads on a "new improved" abacus and some old guy whined because the beads used to be made out of left-handed ivory, not right handed tusk ivory...

Computers and the tech that goes with them is such an utterly INFANT industry, that they haven't learned the lessons that other "engineering" professions have, oh, they're working on it - but they don't have the corporate memory of, say, architects - there's a huge amount of growth that the population of "IT professionals" has to do, and it's hard, the way bricks were made didn't change on average of 18 months, a balance or ruler have always been constant - they worked, "new" computer tools are constantly being invented, abandoned and reinvented.

how many people remember what really made Apple Computer take off? 5 bucks to the person that guesses the software that let them penetrate the business world.


fun to watch though...

I recently bought a new computer, had the same OLD one for 7 years with a few upgrades here and there - I always recommend that as long as people are happy with their computer that they don't install any new thing, upgrade anything or "believe" any hype about how something is going to make something faster...

Happy is happy.

[ldmaster]

No guesses?

Google must be burning up by now...

Of course, the answer is somewhere in Googleville - it's perhaps the one other thing that I attribute to the internet...

Intellectual laziness - with so much information available at the click of a GOOGLE search, even the stupidest creature can seem to have a vast store of knowledge...

OK, I'll up it to 1 5 round box of Federal tactical slugs...

[Zcsdkr]

1979 VisiCalc spreadsheet

And ya ... I was born in 1983... Still remember learning to use this when I was like 5 to track my baseball card collection...

[n8tive97]

Ohhhhhhhh that's why I cant post or send PM's on my wifes laptop!

[chunga]

Guys
I was having the same problem--I couldn't post
There's a little blue box with a squiggly line thru it up at the top where the address thing is. It's left of the refresh button.
That is called a compatability button. I clicked on that and all is working fine now.
I don't know much about computers and I wish I hadn't downloaded IE9 but I'm afaid I'll screw things up if I try to get rid of it.
That compatability button seems to work fine so far though. I wouldn't have been able to post this if it didn't

[n8tive97]

Guys
I was having the same problem--I couldn't post
There's a little blue box with a squiggly line thru it up at the top where the address thing is. It's left of the refresh button.
That is called a compatability button. I clicked on that and all is working fine now.
I don't know much about computers and I wish I hadn't downloaded IE9 but I'm afaid I'll screw things up if I try to get rid of it.
That compatability button seems to work fine so far though. I wouldn't have been able to post this if it didn't

Thanks Chunga!