From: Klom Dark
Date: 11/26/98
Time: 9:50:04 AM

Comments
Have discovered that the game does not display correctly when accessing WebHack from a browser other than Internet Explorer. Netscape seems to be dropping parts of the display, in very unexpected places (Where I am using standard HTML like TABLE or HREF, not any IE-only tags) Opera is displaying all parts of the display correctly, but is not obeying the HTTP header info that tells it not to reload the page from cache memory, which leads to an annoyance of having to click "Reload" when moving from room to room, otherwise the screen displays the previous room info. Lynx has the same problem with not obeying the HTTP Header info. With it, you can either Reload (Ctrl-R) each page or instead of hitting ENTER (Or right-arrow) to select an exit link, use the 'X' (Exclusive) key which tell it to get the new page without checking the cache memory) This is happening because the RoomDisplay.asp page has basically the same URL each time, except for the trailing RoomID=x info, therefore browsers are being stupid and thinking that they have already been there, done that, got the shirt...) I am working on a solution for this (Look like if I go with the command-line based gameplay that I discussed in the previous message, the problem should go away, as it is standard for all browsers to do a non-cached re-request of a page when using a FORM/POST method) I am typing this message using the Lynx browser, so if this message looks strange you'll know why.