At 2/25/01 7:09 AM, Charles Daminato wrote:
>This is a misinterpretation of the problem. This person is having
>difficulties installing PERL modules on Mac OS X - not a whole lot we can
>do about that.
Actually, he was asking about how to upload the data for Cyrillic domain
names using the RWI, which isn't related to the perl modules. (I had said
it was an end-user client issue, which wasn't correct either.)
Many RSPs (including me) do access the RWI from Mac clients, so it's
certainly an issue, and should be tested.
However, I had an offlist conversation with James about it and it turns
out that in fact he *was* joking, and it has been tested with Mac
browsers. So I apologize for being so thin-skinned.
>That would make our releases even slower, and
>further between - is this what you want?
Heh, I'm the wrong guy to ask about this. I know you were asking a
rhetorical question, but yes, in my opinion OpenSRS *should* slow down
and test better, and fix old bugs/outstanding feature requests before
moving onto new things like multilingual domain registrations and
certificates.
But that's just me.
>ONLY
>MSIE for the Macintosh had problems. It's clearly the browser that's
>misreading something or misinterpreting something - because we just
>couldn't get it to work.
You're right, the bug I was referring to is caused by MSIE doing
something weird. However, I did point out how you could fix it by
changing the headers the redirect CGI generated. I still hope you guys
will fix this, because it's currently impossible for MSIE end-users to
buy high-profile .tv domain names.
>When you consider Netscape is by far a more popular browser for the
>Macintosh (according to industry studies)
Hmmm, that sounds like old data -- MSIE has for three years now been the
default browser that ships with Mac boxes, and is by far the most popular
these days.
Here's last week's Mac browser stats from a site I run (that's general
interest and not geared towards any particular browser):
HITS BROWSER
=================================================================
6542 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)
1247 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.5; Mac_PowerPC)
556 Mozilla/4.7 [ja] (Macintosh; I; PPC)
365 Mozilla/4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
337 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 5.0; Mac_PPC)
304 Mozilla/4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
207 Mozilla/4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
180 Mozilla/4.7 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
168 Mozilla/4.5 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
145 Mozilla/4.61 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
138 Mozilla/4.73 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
101 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0b1; Mac_PowerPC)
There's 8227 MSIE hits and 2063 Netscape hits -- 79.9% MSIE. This matches
stats I've seen from other sites. So if you guys have to pick one to test
on, definitely go with MSIE.
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
