AjaxLife updated

January 8th, 2008Uncategorised

[UPDATE] IE6 still doesn’t work. I don’t really care any more. Go get a decent browser, the 13% of you who still use IE6 with AjaxLife (IE6+7 are at 25%, Firefox is now at 62%, Safari at 8%, Opera at 3% and the built-in SL client at 0.5%).

I can’t test IE6 in the same place I can work on stuff, so it’s officially unsupported. Because it’s horrible.

I may or may not have fixed the issues with IE6 that crept up in the last update. We’ll find out tomorrow!

Also, AjaxLife is now available in Hebrew:
AjaxLife in Hebrew

18 Responses to “AjaxLife updated”

  1. Rafi Santo Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 12:51 am

    Todah Raba to whomever did the translation, and mazel tov Katharine on having another demographic able to use your tool. : D

  2. Rafi Santo Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 1:00 am

    I know, I know. Mazel Tov is Yiddish, not Hebrew. Sue me.

  3. xionbunny Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    yay more updates :3

  4. itsme Frederix Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    Congratulations, nice work. Using this in more tabs with more accounts made easy friends in sl.
    It runs well in Linux/Firefox, but als vm-XP/IE7.
    If you need testing effords call me (in sl).

  5. Smiley Barry Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    @Rafi: That’s… ME! (classic average sitcom line :) )

    And, I think I found a bug: I can only select English/Hebrew on a Safari 3-themed Firefox 2 in English. (99% of my online life was in English, so why not switch? :) )

  6. Smiley Barry Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    There appears to be another bug: Logging in with Hebrew on the client “silently disconnected” from Second Life. (mini-map not available, no location, etc.) And then, when I tried with English for 2-3 tries, it said “Error retrieving login response from the server”. (or something similar — I tend to “read, click, and forget”)

  7. Ben Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    is this still all at http://ajaxlife.net ?

  8. chilko tardis Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Good idea. IE 6 and most (read:all) IE’s were standard hell. If MS can’t take the time to build a browser that conforms to web standards, then they don’t deserve to have it supported by the professional web. MS has BILLIONS OF DOLARS to pay people to code. Mozilla Firefox has no one paying the developers, at it conforms to standards! Bill, make this be your final decree please!

  9. Katharine Berry Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 12:15 am

    The only issue is that I use IE6 at school. And using it at school was kind of the whole point in the first place. Also, IE8 successfully passes Acid2, which Firefox 2 doesn’t. Although Firefox 3 does.

    Also, the MySQL server here is being really strange.

  10. HoneyBear Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    I’m one of those IE6 users - mandated by my office’s IT Department and not allowed to upgrade or to use FF. Since the only time I use Ajaxlife is from the office, I’m utterly stuck. I really hope you’ll fix this, so I can continue to support your site financially ;)

  11. Pixel Frog Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    IE8? I have to use IE7 since I’m at work, I’m making progress in getting my mother of all firewalls opened up so I can start a work project in SL, but they won’t let me use Firefox. In the meantime Ajax is my only means to enter SL.

    You just have to love it when a company gets too big for their britches, nVidia is doing the same thing with their hardware API’s.

    BTW great work Katharine, I hope you are thinking of spring boarding this kind of thing (Ajax) into a career.

  12. Katharine Berry Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    HoneyBear: I’m working on it. The original purpose for AjaxLife was use at school - which is IE6 only. :P
    Pixel Frog: It does work on IE7, I assume? (IE8 hasn’t been released yet :P)

  13. Pixel Frog Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    It works fine, especially on the new server. There’s some things it chokes on but I’m thinking that’s the limitations of a web based viewer. I’m getting an error occasionally if I try to open a large notecard, I’ll make a note of it next time I see it. Anything else I’ve chalked off to this ‘effing firewall I’m behind, I’m frankly surprised Ajax works at all.

  14. Katharine Berry Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    I’m thinking that the reason IE6 isn’t working is the school proxy - given that it works fine from here. Sigh.

    I hate bizarre internet setups. Also, this server keeps collapsing for some reason…

  15. HoneyBear Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    It’s not working from my office, either, but my husband called me last time I tried to get in and said “how are you getting online??” So apparently, while I’m stuck seeing “loading subsytems”, he sees me as actually online and I physically appeared at the club we own.

  16. Katharine Berry Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    I can’t even get the login screen to work at school.

    More tinkering needed!

  17. Ben Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 2:54 am

    I’ve found that avatar’s that I get the:

    [18:52] Gesture is missing from database.
    [18:52] Gesture is missing from database.
    [18:52] Gesture is missing from database.

    Message on, I can’t use ajaxlife on, any chance I can figure out which guesture and delete it? The viewer doesn’t help and i’ve deactivated every gesture and still get the message. Or can Ajaxlife ignore this error?

    -Ben

  18. Pixel Frog Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Ben wrote:
    “I’ve found that avatar’s that I get the:

    [18:52] Gesture is missing from database.”

    That’s a SL bug that has nothing to do with AjaxLife. I get the same message 2x from messing with gestures when I was young and foolish. It doesn’t cause me any problems with AjaxLife, though.

    See https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa for more information on submitted bugs, this one has been in the works to be fixed for some time. Just enter “Gesture is missing from database.” in the search box and you will see all the attention this has gotten.

    There’s a few posts on how to get rid of it, none of them worked for me so I just don’t create gestures any more, definitely do NOT delete any that you create. I’ve heard stories of people having screenfulls of these messages, be thankful like I am that you only have 3. It seems like it’s only generating an error message, nothing more.

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