*sigh* I am oh-so-tired of sites that browser sniff to determine whether, in the site designer’s idiot mind, the site will “work” with my browser. Typically, sites that won’t function at all can be made to be fully functional when I simply RIGHT-CLICK, choose “Edit Site Preferences” from the context menu, select Network, tell Opera to mask itself as Internet Exploder or even just Firefox, then reload the page.
If all that’s different (and it is all that’s different; no functionality is changed, no emulation of another browser is implemented) is that the site now “thinks” I’m using a browser on its approved list, so now the site works, then browser sniffers are worthless wastes of time.
But idiot site builders still use ’em, because… they’re idiots, I suppose. No, worse: dumbasses. Heck, even Microsoft only warns of browser incompatibilities when it’s going to insist on using mondo insecure ActiveX controls or needs a Silverlight plugin. (That’s when I download and install Moonlight, if I’ve not already. Thanks but no thanks, Me$$y$oft; I prefer open source for that. Of course, Moonlight’s only for Linux systems, but that’s what I’ve been using whenever I’ve visited a Silverlight-“enabled” site. *heh*)
Even though I only tinker (as you are quite well aware of), I can’t stand that either. I’m having a problem now you may be able to fix. I used to get error msgs for Player 10, so I got it, now I still get error msgs. Grrrr. By the way, I’m not playing any scripts that I know of except the ones in my blog-posts. Well, maybe those on my sidebar. 😉
Rosemary, could be your browser or Flash Player needs updating. Yeh, yeh, I know, you said you got it recently, but you still may need to redownload and reinstall the thing. Check your browser, too. If Firefox, check for updates. Recent versions of Firefox offer automatic updates, but don’t rely on that. If you’re still using IE 7, see if Me$$y$oft will let you update to IE 8 (although, I’d not use it were I you, even though it sucks less than previous versions).
Then, finally, some scripts are malformed and Flash Player can’t parse ’em. That can only be fixed by the person who made ’em.
Oops. That’s Adobe 10. D’oh.