-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] It'd be funny if Gabe didn't happen to used to work for Microsoft.
On 10/23/06, Andrew Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although, this is the same bug that people have been reporting forever > since > IE7 was in Beta and RC stages and nobody took any action on this. Valve > didn't take it up with Microsoft, Valve didn't write the work-around code > already, Microsoft didn't fix it. > > Everyone dropped the ball, and now there's a rush to patch the hole now > it's > actually affecting people out in the wild. Part of the point of the IE7 > beta > was to ensure that stuff like this didn't happen. I'm glad at least that > the > rendering glitches that broke the "Get Steam Now" page and others on the > Steam website were already fixed. > > The moral of this tale is, Valve guys, go grab the latest version of Vista > you can and install it on a machine, and test your games and Steam on it, > make sure it's all great. Make Steam games show up in the Vista Game > Explorer. Make Steam play nice with UAC. Play around with extending Aero > Glass into the Steam windows so that it looks awesome. Please! Vista is > going to RTM real soon now, and it may already be too late to get > Microsoft > to work any of your feedback into Vista, but it's not too late to make > Steam > work fantastic on Vista when it starts being publicly available. > > This is all stuff you're going to have to do eventually anyway, but it > just > makes sense to get it in the can now ahead of time while it doesn't really > matter so you don't have to pull people off other things to rush it when > your average Joe starts installing Vista and starts getting really annoyed > when Steam inexplicably fails to update any more because UAC is making the > update fail. Which is especially tricky because you won't be able to push > out the update which fixes Steam failing to update. You'll have to wait > until that guy is frustrated enough to hit the Steam website, or start > complaining to support. > > You want to give your customers the best possible experience. Make sure > Steam works (and works well, you better support the Vista Games explorer > or > you're going to look lame) with Vista right out of the box. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Dodd > Sent: 22 October 2006 18:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds] IE7 and HTTP fast download issue > > Facts are wonderful things! Thank you. My apologies to Valve. This is > definitely a Microsoft induced BUG not a feature change. > > On Oct 22, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Alfred Reynolds wrote: > > > We are working on a fix for the problem, should have something next > > week. The bug is that the IE7 COM control now returns corrupt data > > ocassionally for the document complete event, we are writing code to > > counter that. > > > > - Alfred > > > > Father dougal wrote: > >> -- > >> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > >> tut tut http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=489017 > >> and > >> from what i heard its nothing to do with valve its something micro > >> wank has > >> changed in IE7 maybe u should join the other hundred people who have > >> reported this to both microsoft and valve and they keep pointing the > >> finger > >> at each other :) > >> > >> > >> > >> On 22/10/06, Matt Albiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> If anyone finds this alleged IE7 fix that's in the steam forums, can > >>> you please share the link with the rest of us? > >>> > >>> On 10/22/06, ShootMe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> is it a client-based fix or a server-based fix? (search-function > >>>> doesn't work in steamboard forums so i didn't find until now) > >>>> > >>>> if its a client-based fix you could forget it - and server-admins > >>>> will have to decide if they would kill their servers with custom > >>>> maps due removing fast-download or to loose players with IE7. > >>>> > >>>> A server-based fix (if possible) is mandatory or a client-based fix > >>>> which could be provided with a regular steam-update that the user > >>>> has no manual work to do. > >>>> > >>>> IE7 will be installed automatically through auto-update soon on > >>>> WinXP Clients, so there should be a fix asap. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Thomas > >>>> > >>>> Father dougal wrote: > >>>>> -- > >>>>> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > >>>>> u should realy look on steampowered.com forums as there is a fix > >>>>> for this allready :) and it is a fix as my other pc is running > >>>>> VISTA and i had to use it ;) > >>>>> > >>>>> On 22/10/06, Saint K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Bug confermed, we're dealing with the same issue here :( > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Saint K. > >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>>>> From: "Roman Hatsiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>>> To: <[email protected]> > >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:56 PM > >>>>>> Subject: [hlds] IE7 and HTTP fast download issue > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> This is something that is haunting IE7 users since first beta > >>>>>>> releases - if fast downloads are enabled on server sometimes an > >>>>>>> attempt to download missing file via HTTP just crashes the game. > >>>>>>> IE7 was released few days ago and now we are receiving > >>>>>>> increasing > >>>>>>> number of complains about this issue. The only workaround is to > >>>>>>> disable fast downloads but it is quite poor solution actually. > >>>>>>> Dear Valve gurus, any plans to fix this issue? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Regards, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Roman > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >>>> archives, please visit: > >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Matt Albiniak > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >>> archives, please visit: > >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >>> > >> -- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >> archives, please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
