Data in a hurry

[venta]

Dull survey: does your web browser of choice support the data:// scheme, as defined in RFC 2397 ?

Quick check:

If you can see a little picture of a face here, the answer is "yes". If you see some form of red-x/image-not-available thing, that's a "no".



If you could comment, letting me know which browser you're using, that'd be great.

To save an immediate flurry of duplicate comments, IE6 doesn't support it :)

Comments

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Yes: Firefox 0.9.

Yes

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Nope: IE5.5

Yes

[lambertbehnke.livejournal.com]

Netscape 7.1
mostly due to being Mozilla 5.0

[triskellian]

Yes; Mozilla 1.7 under Windows XP.

[diffrentcolours]

Yep, Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 on Debian GNU/Linux.

I wouldn't be too surprised if it was Mozilla that generated the flurry of duplicate comments...

[venta.livejournal.com]

And slightly relevantly:

Is it possible to get google to search for things which include non-alphanumerics ?

Searching for "data://" seems to be equivalent to searching for "data", which is not very helpful. Escaping the dots and slashes with a \ doesn't work.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1

Eh ? I've never met Firefox, just heard people talking about it. I didn't realise it was a relative of Mozilla.

[chrisvenus]

lynx just sees the alt tag, I'm afraid. :)
No idea whether this means it understands it or not. :)

[diffrentcolours]

Yeah, Mozilla Firefox is a stand-alone browser (and Mozilla Thunderbird is a stand-alone e-mail client), as opposed to the Mozilla Suite which contains the browser ("Navigator"), mail client ("Mail and News"), IRC client and other stuff. Since I use mutt for e-mail and irssi for IRC, I'm only really interested in the browser.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Opera 7.54: Yup.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Safari can see it. :-)

[smorgasbord.livejournal.com]

Best I have come up with is using the word like dotnet or csharp. I also would like to know if there is a method to get the punctiuation. Maybe other engines allow it?

[chrisvenus]

Oh, and browsers on my computer curerntly include:

IE6, NS4.something, Opera, Firefox, mozilla and possibly some others hidden. If you are really desperate I can kick some of these off (though old NS and opera seem to be the only ones I've not seen above. I have to go through faff to access LJ from work now though (tunnels and proxies) so I'm hoping somebody else will instead... :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Nah, don't make a special effort. It's curiosity on my part rather than a requirement to know.

(Well, I required to know whether anyone supported it, but we seem to have sorted that one :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

So, in general if someone says "my browser is Mozilla", should I assume they mean Firefox or Navigator ? And is there much difference ? (And is the Navigator related to Netscape at all, which I'm sure used to be called Netscape Navigator at some point in the past.)

'Scuse the ignorance.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Doesn't look like it, according to the advanced search tips. The closest I've got (in about 1 minute of looking) is to use the inurl: prefix. ie. inurl:data which (amazingly) insists that data is in the URL. But that's 267 million pages, including such things as msdn.microsoft.com/data/

You could try Google hacks. There might even be an appropriate thing in the Sample Hacks?

[venta.livejournal.com]

No idea either.

Try clicking here (), and tell me what happens with lynx.

[chrisvenus]

"Alert! Unsupported data: URL!"

Or words to that effect anyway....

And can I add that it is a lot easier than I thought it would be to post in lynx. Though I did lose s few links earlier but they might have just been lurking in silly places... :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Or alternatively, tell me to stop being so bloody lazy and check for myself :)

lynx 2.8 doesn't support it.

[diffrentcolours]

I expect that if somebody says that their browser is Mozilla, then they mean Mozilla Navigator. AFAIK, there isn't much difference from the end-user perspective, since they basically use the same rendering engine for web pages, but there's a lot of difference under-the-hood which makes Firefox quite significantly faster. I belive that the plan is to ditch the Mozilla Suite when Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird all reach 1.0 at which point they will be sufficiently well-integrated.

And yes, Mozilla started out as a re-write of Netscape Navigator - you can learn more in the Mozilla FAQ.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

As can Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8, known as "Firefox 0.8" to its friends.

[taimatsu]

0.8 supports it too, unsurprisingly.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Netscape 7 (on Win NT) can see a face.
If the user gets sstonkingly drunk then multiple faces are visible. I don't think that this is a Netscape feature though.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thanks.

So, in view of that, the answers here basically boil down to: IE doesn't, Mozilla in all its shapes does. Lynx doesn't and Opera does. And Safari does, if you're in MacWorld.