Hi there,
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, Greg Choules wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 at 21:06, Havard Eidnes via bind-users <
I've started testing 9.20.x.
... firefox ... version 120.0... informs me ...
This XML file does not appear to have any style information
associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
...
am I alone in experiencing this?
Have you tried a different browser?
It isn't something as daft as reloading a page with CTRL-F5 is it?
I mostly use Palemoon, which is (sort of) a fork of Firefox. The CSS
in some of our internal monitoring occasionally gets changed, and when
that happens sometimes a page reload doesn't cut it because it doesn't
(necessarily?) reload the CSS. CTRL-F5 does, or so I'm told.
[rant]
I admit that browsers are something of a mystery to me. I loathe them
with a passion I normally reserve exclusively for politicians - mostly
because they hog truly ridiculous amounts of resources, they're damned
unreliable, for no apparent reason they do everything differently next
year, you need at least three of them these days to be reasonably sure
you'll be able to make sense of everything they say to you, and you're
never really sure what they're doing behind your back. That refers to
browsers, not politicians, although thinking about it now... When you
do that (use three different browsers, that is, not any thinking about
politicians) you'll find that rarely does the same URI render the same
display on the screen. Differences are often gross and startling.
I don't use a browser with BIND at all, and if the day comes that it's
deemed necessary I'll choose a different name server. I'm *perfectly*
happy with BIND as it is. I'm not saying that I have anything against
it at all. But I feel the need to put on record my view about the use
of browsers as tools, something which seems to be gaining traction and
which I admit was a trap into which I myself fell years ago. That was
before I gained enough experience to know better. Now I prefer to use
something like Tk to code instrumentation UIs even if it's harder work
at the outset. It's a lot *less* work to maintain it. A lot less.
Browsers suck, big-time. In my view they have all forfeited any right
to a place in serious (professional, industrial, ...) instrumentation.
[/rant]
Sorry.
To the BIND developers: Please don't build browsers into the DNS. You
might not have been planning to do it, but if you were, think again of
my long and mostly xxxxasperating experience with them.
--
73,
Ged.
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