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Subject: Bungie.net Compatibility in Browsers
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Bungie.net doesn't render right in Safari, Firefox, Opera, or Camino. I sure hope all of you Windows fans enjoy the site in all of its glory using your beloved Internet Explorer. -blam!- MICROSOFT!!!

P.S. I think Bungie is pretty weak for leaving the Mac, however, this Halo 3 game is pretty damn good. :)

Cheers!

  • 10.05.2007 11:39 AM PDT

Safari works well enough. I haven't had any problems in a very long time. Can't say much about the other browsers, though.

  • 10.05.2007 11:42 AM PDT

Frank O'Connor is a 12-year veteran of the videogame magazine industry and has therefore never worked an honest day in his life.

The web developers use to favor I.E. When 95% of the world used it. This new site runs great in Firefox. So i don't know what your talking about. In fact they even mentioned that it was built from the ground up to work equally in firefox and IE.

  • 10.05.2007 12:22 PM PDT
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I am using OS X here and haven't any problems neither with Safari nor with Camino.

  • 10.05.2007 2:01 PM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Uh, yes it does, at least in Firefox. There are a few bugs here and there in Opera, and more in Safari, although the majority of those are Safari's fault for its crappy Javascript implementation.

And, for the record, IE is not "beloved", and your opinion on Microsoft has little relevance to this conversation.
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Bungie.net doesn't render right in Safari, Firefox, Opera, or Camino. I sure hope all of you Windows fans enjoy the site in all of its glory using your beloved Internet Explorer. -blam!- MICROSOFT!!!

P.S. I think Bungie is pretty weak for leaving the Mac, however, this Halo 3 game is pretty damn good. :)

Cheers!

  • 10.05.2007 2:13 PM PDT
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I'm using firefox. It works perfectly for me. Unless there should by a gigantic dancing grunt in the foreground. Then maybe I have a problem.

  • 10.05.2007 2:32 PM PDT
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I have a question

I am new here and I can not figure out how to post a new thread. Clicking the new thread link does nothing.

I am using Firefox

EDIT: I just read the FAQ and it said my account needs to be at least a day old so that must be why. It also says that I should not see the New topic Button. I just realized the only forum I see the New Topic button is the Halo 3 forum.

[Edited on 10.05.2007 4:22 PM PDT]

  • 10.05.2007 4:05 PM PDT

Frank O'Connor is a 12-year veteran of the videogame magazine industry and has therefore never worked an honest day in his life.

The new topic button is well ummm. different. Sometimes it works first click, sometimes I have to click it 4 or 5 times before it works. Just a bug I guess.

  • 10.05.2007 10:14 PM PDT

I work here: Sound Devices, LLC. We make bad-ass field audio gear, and you think that's awesome. My messy desk (With work-related items on the computer screen).

One does not simply grenade jump into Mordor...

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The web developers use to favor I.E. When 95% of the world used it. This new site runs great in Firefox. So i don't know what your talking about. In fact they even mentioned that it was built from the ground up to work equally in firefox and IE.
As a web developer myself, I'll say that you're only partially correct. The situation is more like this: Web pages render differently in different browsers. There is a set of standards out there that different browsers comply with to varying degrees. Internet Explorer (Particularly all versions prior to 7) is one of the most non-compliant browsers ever. So a web developer is forced to create pages that render a certain way in Internet Explorer (Because everyone uses it), and then see that the site looks wrong in standards compliant browser, and spend a bunch of time tweaking everything to make it look as good as possible in as many popular browsers as possible.

So (To me, at least), Internet Explorer is begrudged and definitely not beloved. The fact that a site works well in IE and has some problems in other browsers just indicates that a web developer is doing their job correctly (i.e. catering to the majority of their visitors). It does not, by any stretch of the imagination, indicate the web developer's "preference" for one browser or another.

  • 10.08.2007 7:19 AM PDT

Frank O'Connor is a 12-year veteran of the videogame magazine industry and has therefore never worked an honest day in his life.

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Posted by: Noob A Manjar0
The web developers use to favor I.E. When 95% of the world used it. This new site runs great in Firefox. So i don't know what your talking about. In fact they even mentioned that it was built from the ground up to work equally in firefox and IE.
As a web developer myself, I'll say that you're only partially correct. The situation is more like this: Web pages render differently in different browsers. There is a set of standards out there that different browsers comply with to varying degrees. Internet Explorer (Particularly all versions prior to 7) is one of the most non-compliant browsers ever. So a web developer is forced to create pages that render a certain way in Internet Explorer (Because everyone uses it), and then see that the site looks wrong in standards compliant browser, and spend a bunch of time tweaking everything to make it look as good as possible in as many popular browsers as possible.

So (To me, at least), Internet Explorer is begrudged and definitely not beloved. The fact that a site works well in IE and has some problems in other browsers just indicates that a web developer is doing their job correctly (i.e. catering to the majority of their visitors). It does not, by any stretch of the imagination, indicate the web developer's "preference" for one browser or another.

I agree. IE 7 is the worst browser in the world. BUT when Bungie,.net was built (the Halo 2 version that is) firefox was brand new and IE6 was the standard. And although it did suck it at least worked. Firefox came though and killed IE6 and now IE7 and because more and more people are switching Web developers are starting to use new standards to build webpages. I'm not 100% in with web design as I'm going to major in the IT department. But when a school prides itself on using windows but has students downloading firefox to use the web, you know you have a problem.

  • 10.08.2007 11:20 AM PDT
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Ya if you look Safari is the most standards complient browser out there(besides maybe opera) but IE completely ignores the standards and does there own thing, so web developers instead of sticking to web standards cave because so many users us IE because they don't know any better. I wish all web developers should just stand there ground and stick to web standards then force IE to change.

I'm pretty sure IE is not standards complient on purpose they do it so people will develop for them and everybody elses browsers don't work right.

  • 10.10.2007 4:58 AM PDT
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I think mac personally sucks.

Besides, it's owned by microsoft now.

  • 10.10.2007 1:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: DaBradler
Ya if you look Safari is the most standards complient browser out there(besides maybe opera) but IE completely ignores the standards and does there own thing, so web developers instead of sticking to web standards cave because so many users us IE because they don't know any better. I wish all web developers should just stand there ground and stick to web standards then force IE to change.

I'm pretty sure IE is not standards complient on purpose they do it so people will develop for them and everybody elses browsers don't work right.
Is dat sum conspiracy?

  • 10.10.2007 4:01 PM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Actually, bungie.net doesn't cater to any specific browser. We run the browsers in "standards mode" not their "quirks mode". And IE7 is actually pretty good about the standards that matter. It also has a really good Javascript engine and is fast. And Safari is NOT standards compliant, despite what they say. It tries, but it is lacking in places, like Javascript/AJAX support.

  • 10.10.2007 4:23 PM PDT