AAarrrghh! I just went back to the two browsers and started comparing the comments on them: they are completely different! Two distinct populations. This makes me wonder if it is an ABC tactic to divided responses by browser, but I can't see the point in that.
I will go soak my head for a while. Pat On 01/10/2013, at 11:03 AM, Pat <clamsh...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On and off, there have been mutterings that Safari browser isn't quite up to > scratch. I had hoped this was all in the past, but now I encounter a glaring > example. > > I discovered long ago that the ABC website doesn't handle Safari well at all; > I was not able to post a comment using Safari. I could post using Firefox. I > wrote several letters to the ABC, suggesting that they bring their site up to > scratch. Eventually they did something, and now the problem is worse. I used > to be able to see and respond to their polls with Safari; now I can't. > > But it gets worse. Last night, there was an opinion article that I wanted to > comment on, so I got out Firefox and did so. This morning, using Safari as > usual, I looked at the article and the comments: my comment was not there, > and the total of comments was 25. > > So, fire up Firefox again, look at the site again. Firefox sees 54 comments, > mine among them. > > I go back to Safari, refresh the page, and look again: still 25 comments. > > What is going on? Is this purely a Safari problem? An ABC site problem? Or > some weird combination of both? > > I suppose the simple answer is just to use Firefox, but I don't like its > interface and it is rather stupid in other ways. It would be nice to be able > to trust what Safari shows me, but it seems to be unreliable. > > I don't really expect a solution from WAMUG, mainly just felt like venting - > sorry about that. > > Thanks, > Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
