Not only Mac users are locked out (of course, so are Linux users, etc.), but also users of older Windows. And you didn't even mention Vista!
MSN in my opinion has too many users for the service it provides. And that service is horrible. Just recently they blocked youtube links on MSN. What's up with that? As for a good chess game, I suggest http://gameknot.com It is simple to use, works in every browser, and while I cannot exactly remember what it used, I think it was some sort of HTML form. Because gameknot allows up to several days of chess play. Of course, after it being an hour of your move, you get an email alerting you. Regards, Svip 2008/5/10 James Jeffery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Today i wanted to play a friend in a game of chess. I have a Yahoo account > so i decided to play him on Yahoo. > > Yahoo have recently upgraded their system and its causing errors for alot of > users. It seems you need to a certain version of Flash to play ( I have > Flash 9). After trying for about an hour to find a solution to the answer i > decided to use the Java client to play chess (the old method). That also > would not work and would not report any errors as to why. I have Java > enabled, but it seemed to just hang as it loaded. > > After a while i thought forget it and went to MSN to play him in chess. I > spent a while setting him up an account on MSN (he is a poor internet user). > All worked fine ... for him. Im using a Mac, so when i went to the MSN site > it said you need XP or 2000 to play and you need IE. Great! > > After 2 hours i gave up. I wanted to use Yahoo or MSN. My friend (who is old > in his age) was getting annoyed and i was annoyed. We opted to leave it and > meet up in the week for a game of chess. > > Personally i feel todays problems are a great example of poor accessibility. > > To conclude. Yahoo's new system has bugs that are affecting alot of people > and are stopping people accessing their services. MSN are trying to create > yet another centralized service where Mac users are locked out of their > services. Yahoo's problems can be seen as teething problems but MSN's are > ignorance. > > Ps. Sorry if there are spelling/grammer mistakes. I'm a little ill today and > concerntration is not at its best. > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
