somasoma

Sorry.. I am using wp 2.0.

I just lost my first, and only post and a couple of comments. Either it was malicious or something is very wrong.

NyteOwl,

I just reinstalled 1.0.7 OSX (rev 1.7.12) and the check page took me to the explanation page. Perhaps you could give me a little more information?

Thanks

Podz,

I have to agree that the explanation is very important. Thanks for the suggestion.

NyteOwl,

The fact that you didn’t bounce surprises me. 1.7.12 revision should bounce.. I will take a look at it but I can’t see anything in the code that would suggest that you shouldn’t bounce. Happy for comments.

I know that I may not get to many visitors at the moment and that is a shame but I ‘needed’ to do this.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I will just post the code for the record.

Following the techpatterns script (link above) add something like this:


if ( (browser_detection('browser') == 'moz') and (browser_detection('number') >='1.8'))
{
header("Location: https://www.momentlost.com/");
}

else
{
header("Location: https://www.momentlost.com/explanation/");
//echo browser_detection('number');
//echo browser_detection('browser');

}

So… this code will open momentlost if the browser is Firefox 1.5 (in the code this is represented by the revision number for 1.5 which is 1.8). Otherwise it sends the viewer to the explanation url. I have included the commented out code for displaying the browser type and number just in case this helps.

If you have any, easy, questions I am happy to help. But my knowledge of programming comes from the glory days of pascal so I just screw around until something works… but happy to try.

David

Right I have ‘finished’ the site. Lots of work to do.

https://momentlost.com/check/

I managed to modify the techpatterns code. Happy to post it if anyone desires it.

WarAxe,

The CSS3 Columns are going to be used for the text not the layout itself. However, the layout needs the text to be displayed in columns or it just doesn’t work. I will post a link to a semi-finished site, hopefully, in the next couple of days.

Dgold,

In fairness I was probably looking for someone with a piece of code to post it for me. I am quite lazy. When I do create a solution I will come back here and post it.

I agree that with your premise. People have different expectations from wordpress. Mike H. (maybe the most famous) wp blog no longer supports ie (with my full support). Advocates for the cause of not having to spend many hours “mending” your code are personally my favorites.

If my readership does not include people that use ie (for this specific, and specialized site) so be it. I do not want them. It is for that reason that I am disappointed that safari users will not be “welcome”. I use that browser quite often but it doesn’t support the CSS I need, in this case.

I know what I need can be done with php and CSS but was hoping it had already been written. I will come back with a solution in a couple of days.

However, I agree with Podz that people who visit the site need an explanation of why they cannot view it. Perhaps they will then download firefox. Cannot wait to have this site up live. Will post the link here then (week or two).

Many thanks.

Podz,

I take your advice and will have an explanation page with images. My site is more a proof of principle layout experiment and not really a blog. The site will not display or even work without CSS3 columns.

I am disappointed that the site will not display correctly in safari but I couldn’t care less about ie.