I apologize in advance if this is too far OT:
I am not a Web developer, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable
can tell me what this page is doing that disagrees with Mozilla.
http://8ball.federated.com/
You have to see it to believe it. But basically you type in a
question and it's supposed to generate a stream of JPEGs which
display the magic 8 ball's answer in real time. I tried asking it,
"Is this browser any good?"
Tried it in Netscape 4.7, and the 8 ball said "yes." In IE 5.5 it
said "it is certain." (okay, it's 1 for 2.) If you try it in Mozilla
0.9.2, you get a message that says "your browser is busted if you
just see this text."
At any rate, there is a long description at
http://8ball.federated.com/how.html of the inner workings of the 8
ball server. It seems as if the author has gone to some trouble to
ensure multi-browser compatibility (it used to use
multipart/x-mixed-replace, but changed to a "javascript monstrosity"
to support IE).
I was just wondering if someone could tell me what feature this uses
that Mozilla doesn't support, before I file a bug and get laughed at.
thanks in advance,
blandon
PS: I asked my real 8 ball the same question, while using Mozilla,
and it said "cannot predict now." I think that's a fair assessment.
