On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 01:24 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > gmx.com fails: > Please enable JavaScript to experience the full functionality of GMX. > dogpile.com fails: > http://www.ledauphine.com/ fails I can't comment on those particular sites, but with some other sites the error messages are often erroneous. They do things like make a presumption on what your browser is capable of with a false test. e.g. Complain that you didn't have cookies set because they tried to do it with a JavaScript function that didn't work (when you were accepting cookies, but were blocking JavaScript). Their error message misleads you. e.g. The converse of the above. Do some cookie test that fails, but complain about JavaScript. e.g. Try to do something with JavaScript that your browser doesn't support, yet your browse does a plethora of other things with JavaScript without problems. And they declare that you must enable JavaScript. The trouble is that their test of whether you have JavaScript enabled didn't test whether JavaScript was actually available, but tried to use one feature of it that wasn't going to work. I could list numerous examples, but you ought to be able to see a pattern emerging, and you may have to try oddball changes to see if you can get through their site (e.g. change cookie options when seeing errors regarding JavaScript). Some sites are just programmed by idiots (*), and your only courses of actions are to use a different browser, or even a different OS. * People with a blinkered viewpoint who cannot see alternatives to whatever is that they're attempting to do, and cannot see that they've got a weirdly narrow point of view. Can you count to a 100? Yes. Can you accurately count 100 people out of a crowd that runs past you? No. Then you can't count to 100. Yes, I can "count to 100," numbskull. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
