LWN status update [LWN.net]

LWN status update

Posted Jul 30, 2002 17:33 UTC (Tue) by cpeterso (guest, #305)
Parent article: LWN status update

I think you should limit the current edition of Weekly News to subscribers, but keep the archives open to the public. This will help preserve your great content for posterity. The one week delay will also give an incentive for people to pay up to get the current news.

Also, if I am going to pay money to subscribe, I would like LWN.net to work correctly in IE. Ever since the LWN face lift, the account login cookies have never worked correctly in IE.

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Re: IE?

Posted Jul 30, 2002 19:19 UTC (Tue) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

hmm, you might consider using Linux - if you are using ie, you are most likely a windoze user - it's not at all clear why a diehard ie user would know or care what lwn does w.r.t. cookies -

could be a troll....

Re: IE?

Posted Jul 30, 2002 19:31 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I have to disagree. About 25% of our readers use IE; many of them do so from work or other places where they have no choice. Others simply want to use IE. We don't like web sites that discriminate against non-IE browsers; we want to do better ourselves.

Getting cookies to work right with all browsers is far more of a pain than you would think, and we have a couple of issues to deal with still. It's on the list, trust me.

Re: IE?

Posted Jul 30, 2002 21:57 UTC (Tue) by mjstrom (guest, #1012) [Link]

You are not helping matters. Not every die-hard linux user only uses linux. An example that easily comes to mind is people who read from work and only have IE. Or maybe they just like the browser, shocking as that might be. Or maybe (like I do) have linux and windows and use each where it is appropriate.

Linux needs to be an inclusive community not a take-it-or-leave-it one.

LWN status update

Posted Jul 30, 2002 20:48 UTC (Tue) by crouchet (guest, #1084) [Link]

I find that my LWN login only works if I allow full cookie access. I prefer to only allow cookies back to the originating site but that is no go for LWN. My browser is Netscape, but I would not be surprised if you have a similar problem with IE.

OTOH, If you were to install Netscape (the Windows version looks identical to the Linux version AFAICT) then you also get some cool capabilities, like the ability to stop unrequested pop-up windows. For more info on how to do that, go to http://techaholic.net/ns7.html

LWN status update

Posted Jul 31, 2002 4:50 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

<sigh>

I figured this out about 36 hours after the cut, and *told* Jon...

It works if you go to http://lwn.net, and reliably breaks if you go to http://www.lwn.net.

On IE5/W2K, anyway.
--j

Posted Jul 31, 2002 8:25 UTC (Wed) by jalapeno (guest, #1042) [Link]

The cookies break for me if I go to lwn.net, but they work if I go to www.lwn.net. Maybe it depends on where you were when you got the cookie...

Posted Jul 31, 2002 13:58 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Most curious.

I had *always* gone to www.lwn.net, until I found out that I couldn't reliably log in from there.

What it had looked like to me was that the cookies were for lwn.net, not .lwn.net... and my suggestion had been to redirect www. to the base domain. I don't see that that's happened, but I now realize they've probably been to busy to fix it; it's not exactly a class-1 bug.
-- j