I'm not flaming you on it so no problem but vBulletin and nearly all other bbs scripts are written in PHP and MySQL always have been. All of that is handled by the server so any issues are to do with new v.xx they put out not with the script itself.. Your issue is with the browser not the bbs.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here?
The fact that the scripts are all running on the server side seems kind of irrelevant, of course they are. In fact the fact they are running PHP scripts or whatever also seems somewhat irrelevant. Do you think that I think the Vbulletin software is running on my computer?
As I said before theoretically yes theres no reason why it couldn't be possible to write code that degrades gracefully and runs on a wide range of browsers. Lets imagine for example that I was running a broswer that was completely incapable of rendering css but rendered HTML just fine. Do you think that browser would fare well on the modern internet?
The youtube hacks are dependant on the streaming method as well not on the bbs. Thats a whole other issue.
erm, I don't want to talk about youtube. It doesn't work because of not having flash basically. I only mentioned it because you asked what I can run on my computer and I was explaining that I can't run those kind of sites but a lot of things work fine. It's nothing really to do with this thread. I shouldn't have entertained you by discussing that aside at all to be fair, as what my computer is or isn't capable of doing is kind of irrelevant. Right now it renders the Home Recording site just fine, as you can see as I'm writing this post on said computer right now. I'm wondering if it will continue to do so. Whether my computer can play the latest videos or your favourite computer game or whether it only can be used for IRC and newsgroups is preety irrelevant. I didn't start this thread to discuss how crap my computer is and it's being kind of trollish to be trying to steer the thread in that direction.
I would say that if you have issues with the BBC site you need to seriously look into how capable your current setup is. That site is about as compliant and cross platform as they get, with the exception if their reliance on realplayer. That really hacks me off as a licence payer.
That was exactly my point. That even the BBC site is changing. You clearly havn't been to the BBC website for at least a couple of months either as they have been ditching Real Player in favour of flash for some time now. Ironically for me Real Player works just fine but it's an understandable move.
Lately little bits of the site have gone slightly wonky. Especially stuff that opens windows to show pictures and that kind of thing. It's a shame as the BBC news site used to render perfectly on even the most obscure and basic web clients but that is starting to change now. Till just recently all these bits of the BBC news site worked just fine. To be fair other parts of the BBC site such as some of the radio station sites are seriously all over the place and won't even render at all in stuff as common as IE5.
The BBC news site has always been amazing in this respect in the past, that is exactly why I have been sad to see things that were working perfectly get broken.
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