What browser are you using to view your site?

By default MSIE doesn't support PNG.

This can hardly come as a surprise as it is probably one of the worst browsers around.

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Right place?
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I am not sure this is the right forum to post this question, but I weren't sure where else I should post it.

Looking for:
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XOOPS uses cookies, that it stores on the users machine, in order to keep track of the user, what entries he has read, etc. At least as I understand it.

I would like to know how these cookies are organised - their format, where they are being produced (where in the code) and where they are being read - but I don't know where to find such information.

Why?
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The present use of cookies seems - at least to me - to be ineffective. If I log in on one machine and read the news and then moved to another machine and log in, then it seems as if I didn't read any news at all. Having had a very brief look at the cookies left on my computer from xoops-sites, the information seems fairly short (in terms of space required to store it).
I am thus wondering if it would be possible and useful to store the cookie-information in the user's profile on the server in stead on some random computer somewhere, that the user might never access again.

Disclaimer
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I have no understanding of how these things work (that's why I am looking for some information in the firste place) and I am sure that the chosen solution (the cookies) was chosen for a reason. Just wondering - and hoping - it could be made smarter seen from the point of view of the user.

This is possible, but it is a rather huge project.

See this thread:https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=10734&forum=14&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=80

I use FireFox (and less often Opera - and occassionally a few other odd browsers) - and Firefox does support ActiveX (on some pages, if I block ActiveX I loose fuctionality when using FireFox).

Now, as far as I know, ActiveX is an OS-functionality, that the html-code calls. Much like AREXX on the AmigaOS Classic. It is not a browser-thing.


Anyway, ActiveX still should be forbidden any access to any webpage, as it is a windows only functionality and won't work on any other OS. Which is not a very good idea.


ActiveX furthermore gives a homepage the ability to execute programs on your computer and that is about as big a security hole as you can get. (Deleting the regdb, files etc. comes to mind.)

So no matter how you look at it ActiveX is definetely a no-no.



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Besides, you wrote:
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This is simply not true. No matter how you set the security settings in MSIE you are running a program that is the largest single security hole in windows - number 2 being Outlook - with or without the Express extension.

In generel people should be discouraged to use MSIE and webdesigners should NOT go out of their way to make webpages MSIE complient. That only makes people believe, that MSIE is a usefull choice as a browser, when in fact it is not.
But alas, it is not a perefct world...

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A note on <embed>

Searched the web and found the following tidbit:
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fromhttp://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ from 9 November 2002 – things might have changed.

Noticing that the banner-sections in XOOPS use <embed> for flash it might be a good idea to reconsider the use of <embed> and possibly take a look at <object> in stead.

But here I am a bit out of my league.

It seems as it might have been the Banners doing it. (See previous message).

I haven't checked the site with MSIE.

I never use MSIE as MSIE is approximately 2-3 years behind the actual standard within webdesign. It doesn't even support CCS 1 and CSS2 fully.

Had I used MSIE my guess too would have been that it was a browser issue.

Thanks for the idea, though.

Sunsnapper wrote:
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Never been using banners. But saw that it was turned on for my newly installed site (probably as default). Turned it off and it seems to have stopped the annoying "ActiveX" from appearing.

Will see if I encounter any "ActiveX" elements the coming days.

Thanks for the pointer. Would never have thought about it as I never use banners.


Thank you.

Normally this would be done globally for your XOOPS-site under Admin/Preferences.

But it might be that the files in the English-folder you mention are in reality written in Spanish. Thus XOOPS displays the right language files - they just haven't been translated to English yet.

Well, that was my understanding too (no ActiveX).

There might be something beneath (such as statistics gathering); hadn't thought about that possibility.

However, I occassionally meet the odd ActiveX element here on www.xoops.org as well.

Normally I just block it and I see no loss of functionality (not as far as I can tell, anyway).