still can't get to Bigcloset from IE

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Anyone know why I had to download chrome to get to BigCloset? Internet Explorer still has the currently offline page even if I clear history and all.

look at

the address line at the top of the IE page. Go to the line, and remove the maint.php segment of the address shown, and you will either zip to the new pages when you hit enter, or if you wind up at the big closet pages, just use the link there to get to the BCTS page.

Tried that and did not work.

gpoetx's picture

Tried that and did not work. Even weirder, I took a current story here on Chrome, cut and pasted it over to IE and opened it but when I hit the home page button it went back to the offline page.

It could be a stuck upstream

It could be a stuck upstream cache, but you may not really have purged the cache well.

I use a tool (on windows) called 'ccleaner' by Piriform. (It used to be called 'crap cleaner'). It works well for clearing out history, cache, a lot of temp files (It still leaves a bunch behind), and so forth. Just download, install, and make sure that if you want the autocomplete history to save, you unclear the relevant options. Then run the 'cleaner' part.

BW


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

FInally Got Here

littlerocksilver's picture

Withdrawal has been hell. It's going to take some time for me to get used to the new look. I'm just glad you're back.

Portia

Still issues with IE access

I too am having issues with IE 11.
Enter: bigclosetr.us/topshelf --> sent to bigclosetr.us/maint.php. After 5 seconds the redirect sends me to bigclosetr.us/topshelf/node.

I have run CCleaner, and rebooted. Same results.

Chrome and FireFox work just fine.

A nuisance really, since I can update my short cut to use what IE will succeed at.

Regards
Carla

PS: was only able to access the updated site today. IE has blocked itself at the Maintenance Announcement for the past three days.

PPS: So far, my only 'wow that is different' is the extra white space, and the recitation of tags on the 'printer-friendly' pages. Which I don't care for. Especially on my mobile device.

"May you live in Interesting Times" is a promise, not a threat!

Belated realisation..

Internet Explorer 11 has a large number of flaws, and even now, shouldn't be considered usable for anyone with a choice. If you have the option, go into the control panel, programs and features, then the updates option. Remove IE 11.

Microsoft did not test it properly, and even now, umpteen months after the initial release, they have yet to fix their issues. EClinicalWorks, for one example, has a lot of problems running with IE11. (That's probably why they don't support Windows 8 with the software. Additional information about ECW at the end, for anyone that cares). Another example is almost every single major bank's business site throws errors at IE 11. When it first came out, I received at least nine panicked calls from accounting departments because they weren't able to do their normal daily bank work. (That was a busy couple of days). Reverting from IE 11 to IE 10 fixed the problems immediately. I find it reprehensible that Microsoft failed to test IE with _at least_ Chase, Bank of America, and Capital One's business sites. Testing with smaller ones? Well, that would take a while, and I can't blame them for that.

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Aside on ECW. It's a popular electronic medical records software because it's less expensive for most small doctors. The problem is that from digging in the code and other work with it, it's been bastardized at least two different ways by the company. The first way is that their server is clearly designed to be installed and run on a Linux or other *nix platform, but their salespeople push it for windows servers. (Their programmers, on the other hand, are thrilled when it's run on a *nix box. It's a Tomcat driven system, using an ftp server and MySQL database. Which reminds me to talk to them about switching to MariaDB) The second way is that the client end was _very_ clearly originally written to be browser based. That's not a problem, but it looks like about half way or more through the development process, they decided they needed an actual windows _program_ to provide good interface with scanners and other electronic medical devices. That leads to the real problem - they didn't disconnect the program from the browser interface. To fix margins, you have to adjust them in IE, and if you are an office with IE locked down, it simply _doesn't start at all_.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

Seconded

rebecca.a's picture

Internet Explorer 11 has a large number of flaws

In 2014 there is really no reason for anyone outside of a corporate enterprise environment to run Internet Exploder. None. It's never been a good browser, and recent versions of Chrome have been so far and away superior it's now a joke.

In my workplace we're still forced to use Windows 7 and IE, but whenever I call the helpdesk with a problem their advice is to only use IE for the things that relate to our internal systems (like our intranet, which is horrible). They've installed Chrome on almost everyone's machine now so we can access sites regular human beings like to use.

I'm sure we'll never be able to get rid of IE entirely (it's like kudzu), but all our corporate execs use iPads as well as PCs now so there's a big move to migrate us away from legacy systems toward something that's standards-compliant.

Friends don't let friends use IE if there's a choice.


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