East Coast Express

thomascairns · Post by **thomascairns** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:55 am

Surprisingly, Firefox is rapidly becoming the majority. 11% of all web users I believe is fair to say is part of the majority... yes, I know the blabber about IE being the most used, but shouldn't be Firefox be part of the majority too. 11% of the world's users is a lot, and I believe it is something like 30% of UKers have Firefox, so it certainly is in the majority (the rest goes to Opera etc).

barrybryce01475 · Post by **barrybryce01475** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:55 am

tydev417 wrote:The don't "support" Firefox, they support the "majority".

I wouldn't drag IE out for anything any more - even deleted the icon for it!

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:15 am

thomascairns wrote:11% of all web users I believe is fair to say is part of the majority...

What you wrote does not make sense. 11% may be part of a majority but how can 11% be a majority? It's the other 89% that is the majority. 11% is a minority.

I agree though that a company worth it's salt should make the effort to have a website that catered for minority web browsers, or at least significant minority ones such as Firefox.

Martin

nestfilms · Post by **nestfilms** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:34 am

Is it definatley a firefox issue?
i'm using IE at work and cannot view them but at home they are fine
it could be a codec issue

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:13 pm

i'm using IE at work and cannot view them

If your work IT department is worth its salt they will be blocking these type of files. I cant view them at work either. Mind you I haven't tried to view them at home either as im not interested in this route as it stands.

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:02 pm

It might be being blocked at work, but for me, I am certainly getting different videos from the same link depending what browser I use.

The url can't be changing, so why does http://www.europeanbahn.co.uk/ecoastexp ... dece11.htm show a different video depending what browser you use ?
The links not changing in the page, its what the browser is doing with it surely ?

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:40 pm

You're right Dave, 'tis indeed strange. Might be a cookie thing. Try clearing your cache and see if you still get 2 videos for the price of one.

Martin

leezer3 · Post by **leezer3** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:00 pm

Different videos per browser here as well

Chris Lees

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:21 pm

A sort of digital version of that old Monty Python record that had 2 interlaced tracks on one side.

You'd play it for ages then one day you'd play it again and suddenly it was different.

Martin

tydev417 · Post by **tydev417** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:40 pm

Well I use Firefox 1.5 and it has never worked. I'm able to view streamed videos on mostly all websites but Gamespot.

Oh, do any of you know that the Internet Explorer 7 Public Beta is out now?

james4124 · Post by **james4124** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:22 pm

No, didn't know that, off to look for it now, thanks for the tip. By the way, I just get the Portsmouth video when I use firefox 1.5...

nestfilms · Post by **nestfilms** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:43 pm

i'm using IE at work and cannot view them

If your work IT department is worth its salt they will be blocking these type of files.

Why would they block them?

i can normally view streaming video from work

45002 · Post by **45002** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:51 pm

james4124 wrote:No, didn't know that, off to look for it now, thanks for the tip. By the way, I just get the Portsmouth video when I use firefox 1.5...

Thats all i ever got the Postmouth Video

There a update to Firefox came out on 01/02/06

to Firefox 1.5.0.1

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html

MARTIN

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:43 pm

Why would they block them?

Well for starters its using expensive bandwidth for a non business related matter. Where I work we are heavily restricted in what we can do on the internet. Everything is logged. All pictures (jpg's etc) are block as is all video, streamed or not. We can web surf to sites directly related to what we need and if we need a site that is blocked we can make a case for its unblocking which is then vetted before being opened up.

mattvince · Post by **mattvince** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:41 pm

Just my Â£0.02 - Firefox either sends me to the Portsmouth line video or refuses to show at all - except the one time it crashed Firefox.

I wouldn't buy it - if this is the level at which potential customers are treated, and the fact that the graphics have moved on. The texturing looks far too much like a 'game' and not like a 'simulator'.