Well, it isn't that the search doesn't work in safari. I deliberately put in
easy wmv which I had seen further down on th page. It returned two results.
I'm thinking that at least in the basic search you actually have to have the
name of the software or a part of the name but of course that's just a guess
on my part; I really don't know. Perhaps the advanced search allows for
broader input. Again, just a hypothesis. But the problem does not appear to
be that something about safari isn't letting you search.
----- Original Message -----
From: "hank smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: update sites aweful
macupdate won't let you search either
I did a search and it says no results found
when there should be especially for cd burning applications etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:56 AM
Subject: update sites aweful
I've been fighting versiontracker.com and macupdate.com for different
reasons today and haven't managed to find python 2.4 for the mac or
download the other dependencies for soundrts either. The problem with
versiontracker.com is once you enter a search term and it fails, the next
search term had better be longer than what you originally entered or
you're burned. I haven't been able to clear the highlighting of python
2.4 so I could just try a search on python. The macupdate.com page is
just totally crazy you get thrown whereever on the page when you come in
and the search box is hidden. I'm beginning to think these sites won't
be of much use anymore without another operating system to search them
and do the downloads then transfer onto the mac. Linux can handle this
with lynx because lynx doesn't play the games these web sites do with
browsers, no javascript to do it so no ajax either.
