Now that Microsoft has started it's 'Let's Kill IE6' thermometer thingy.

[Henry Minute]

That's the chappie.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

[Dalek Dave]

I suspect there will be a few, not through choice, but work reasons. I am FF.

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[OriginalGriff]

Henry Minute wrote:

For those stuck on XP and therefore IE8

...could use Chrome instead...

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

[Henry Minute]

I too am mainly FF but one of my boxes is still on XP and therefore limited to no higher than IE8. If you ever try visiting Microsoft Update[^] in FF you will be notified that IE is required in order to run it which is why I also have IE8 installed too. Not choice exactly but certainly not work. :)

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

[Henry Minute]

See this[^] for reasons that your proposed solution is not practicable, in all circumstances.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

[peterchen]

Meh. Ctrl+F in a PDF? Finds nothing. Print a page with a RGB(254,254,254) background? Get really-black on wants-to-be-really-black-too. Just the stuff I hit today. (proudly posted in Chrome, no less)

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[OriginalGriff]

Yeah, I keep a copy of IE on my PC for just that stupid purpose. Doesn't need HTML5, it's just MS being the usual...

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

[hairy_hats]

The blogger just says "Look here![^]" and adds nothing of interest to the main post.

[OriginalGriff]

Ctrl-F in a pdf in chrome finds it for me... Not tried to print black on so-nearly-black-as-to-be-black, so I couldn't comment. Who is silly enough to think that is a good idea for a page anyway? :laugh:

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

[Henry Minute]

The blogger is the author of the main post. I used that link because I have an account on the PCPro site and if I include a direct link it will have automatically logged me in, thereby giving others access to my account information. Thank you for taking the trouble though.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

[hairy_hats]

Henry Minute wrote:

thereby giving others access to my account information

Muahahaha....ah, OK. :)

[peterchen]

1. RGB(254,254,254) is "almost white" 2. In IE, you can disable printing background color and pictures

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[OriginalGriff]

1. :doh: It must be Thursday, I never did get the hang of Thursdays... 2) Could be handy sometimes. I use a Chrome extension which lets me select what I print (Print+)

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

[rwinte]

So when websites start supporting HTML5, are XP users in IE stuck if they don't use a solution like this? What happens when grandma running XP, who has never heard of Chrome and Firefox, tries to access an HTML5 site in IE 8?

[Henry Minute]

rwinte wrote:

What happens when grandma running XP, who has never heard of Chrome and Firefox, tries to access an HTML5 site in IE 8?

It depends on how the site is written. Although if it is largely the new features she ain't gonna see very much.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

[Joe Woodbury]

When Google stops making their damn updater run constantly, I'll try Chrome again. (But each time I try it, I really don't like it.)