Calibre 4.0 - Hackdot

Re:Calibre 4.0 by elwell on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:50AM (#21157655)

Got to respect dedication and hard work. But why doesn't his homepage support Chrome? https://kovidgoyal.net

Edit: I was referring to the alert() upon loading the site:

    W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site.
    I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should.
    Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by dominotw on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:12AM (#21157877)

> This site was made along time ago, when I was interested in web programming, using DHTML and javascript, long before the advent of modern cross browser techniques. As such, it's a bit of an artifact, showing what was possible, (with a lot of work in the 1990's).

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by russdpale on Friday October 04, 2019 @07:50PM (#21162870)

Brother, this is a great site, don't ever change it! I liked some of your poems, and this line "fault tolerant quantum computers" Definitely made me raise an eyebrow or two.

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by elwell on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:55AM (#21158308)

I figured as much. Don't get me wrong, I love it (in an excessively creative myspace kind of way).

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by kbutler on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:56PM (#21160188)

Interestingly, it fails for me because of Mac, not because of Chrome:

this.correctBrowser = (this.nav || this.ie); this.correctVersion = (this.nav5up || this.ie5up); this.correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32); this.supported = (this.correctBrowser && this.correctVersion && this.correctOS);

A case of platform detection, instead of feature detection, and an illustration of how platform detection fails in future-proofing your code.

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by icebraining on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:41PM (#21159397)

Are you using macOS? He didn't test that:

    correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32)

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by ihuman on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:56AM (#21157707)

It works fine for me in chrome v77

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by Angostura on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:01AM (#21157765)

I get that in Safari too.

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by bla3 on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:53AM (#21157678)

Works fine over here.

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Re:Calibre 4.0 by rammy1234 on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:43AM (#21158206)

it works in chrome latest. from the website quotes " This website makes heavy use of DHTML and requires a W3C DOM (Level 1), CSS and CSS-P compliant browser. It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.4. For detailed site information click on the button. "

Lot of simplicity just works. ( lot of work would have gone in 1990's to get this site up and running "

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