A Note to the LJ-World

[lagilman]

You may or may not think that the entire world wants to hear every detail of everything you say.

You may or may not be right.

But when posts get more than 50 lines long? Especially when it's a meme or quiz or movie review? Cut-tag that sucker.

Thank you.

Comments

[drewshi.livejournal.com]

A very reasonable request expressed in a polite and to the point way.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

And pictures.

I usually post one then put the rest behind a cut. Or all of them behind a cut. Something like that.

[lagilman]

Pointy I've got. Polite I'm still working on.

[debg.livejournal.com]

If someone can figure out how to debug my %#$$% software so that the cuit tag actually WORKS occasionally? That would be good. So far, even my alphageek husband hasn't managed it.

Confession, though? I generally don't read stuff behind cut tags.

[drewshi.livejournal.com]

Well, it's working. That was a polite request.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Many people don't. That's something else - but on the other hand, do people need to read the memes?

[debg.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not disagreeing; label it a meme, or navel-gazing or whatever, or photos, and cut-tag it.

Problem is, mine's intermittent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it dowsn't, and sometimes it locks my entire browser and I lose stuff and have to reboot. NOT worth it to me to do that.

Seems to be a netscape issue (it's been doing some weird stuff in yahoo, as well, that it isn't doing when I use IE). But I loathe Explorer with a passion.

[kessadebra.livejournal.com]

Just playing Devil's Advocate here because I do agree with the cut idea, but really, what is the difference between someone who does not cut a longer LJ blog and someone who posts three or four times a day?

[lagilman]

what is the difference between someone who does not cut a longer LJ blog and someone who posts three or four times a day?

Someone who posts a lot is talkative. Someone who posts long and uncut is talkative and thoughtless. *grin*

More seriously, it's easier to skim over a lot of short posts than it is to scroll down and down and down over a long one that eats up the friendslist page. And there are a numer of memes and photos that will screw with the formatting of a page unless it's hidden - and you (the poster) never know if it will happen until someone yelps.

It's about consideration, basically -- thinking about how it wil impact others, rather than Me!

Which Netscape?

[(Anonymous)]

Seems to be a netscape issue (it's been doing some weird stuff in yahoo, as well, that it isn't doing when I use IE). But I loathe Explorer with a passion.

Which Netscape?

"Classic" Netscape, IE: Netscape Navigator or Communicator v3.X or 4.X is not recommended. It is simply too far behind the times, and doesn't support an assortment of standards.

Netscape 6.X is not recommended. They should never have let that one out of the barn, and as far as I can tell only released it because they felt they had to get something out the door.

NetScape 7.1/7.2 are both useable, if a bit dated, and based on the Mozilla 1.0/1.3 code bases. Mozilla Seamonkey is equivalent -- a bundled "suite" product -- and currently at 1.0 alpha 4. There are a few differences between it and Netscape, but not major ones.

Netscape 8.X...well, I don't recommend it. I installed it to see what Netscape had done, and removed it fairly quickly. The main "feature" isn't one from my viewpoint: it will let you selectively use either the Mozilla "Gecko" rendering engine or the IE "Trident" engine to give you maximum compatibility with extant sites, and offers a Netscape maintained "whitelist" of safe sites to view in IE.

Give me a break. If the site doesn't render correctly in a Mozilla based browser, it probably shouldn't render correctly in IE, save that IE is broken and tolerates crappy code.

I use Firefox. 95%+ of the sites I visit work fine in it. Those that don't either want to download an Active-X control (which Firefox deliberately doesn't support for security reasons), needs to be lied to and told IE is the browser in use because the browser recognition code is old/broken, or are so crappily coded I don't want to visit them again. (Firefox makes it easy to lie about what browser it is to a sitye you are viewing.)

Download a current Firefox build and try it. It may solve your probelms with the cut tag. Even if it doesn't, it's simply the best browser available.
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Dennis

[debg.livejournal.com]

Oy. Some very good info from a screened user, and it won't let me respond.

Dennis - is it Dennis? I've got Netscape 7.1. I find it generally a lot less cumbersome than both the older versions, and it's all the way preferable to IE. We think this particular install may just be buggy, but it means spending some dosh on a new upload and right now, just not budgeted.

As for Firefox, I've used it. It hasn't thrilled me, but I may give it another go.

[lagilman]

debg
Oy. Some very good info from a screened user, and it won't let me respond.

Yeah, you have to wait until the LJ-owner (me) unscreens Anonymous. It's my way of letting non-LJers comment without inviting the trolls in for lunch. All unscreened now.

[debg.livejournal.com]

Dude.

You KNOW I'm techno-impaired.

With you on the long weirdly-formatted memes; I've had my screen severely screwed around with by a couple of those.