So waiting for five minutes is a bad sign, then...
(looks at settings - turns on every JavaScript option, including the ones that let VXers into the computer, and tries again)
(waits another five minutes)
Well, at least I got a cursor this time... but no text. And the chat window still won't open.
(checks cookies)
A-ha! The site's trying to set third-party cookies that leave personally-identifying information without asking permission first. Sorry, but it looks like
Etherpad is a no-go for me.
(puts JavaScript options back the way they were)
Shall we go back to the old-fashioned method of hammering out stories on this forum? It seemed to work well enough in 2006, 2007, and 2008...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(looks at settings - turns on every JavaScript option, including the ones that let VXers into the computer, and tries again)
(waits another five minutes)
Well, at least I got a cursor this time... but no text. And the chat window still won't open.
(checks cookies)
A-ha! The site's trying to set third-party cookies that leave personally-identifying information without asking permission first. Sorry, but it looks like
Etherpad is a no-go for me.
(puts JavaScript options back the way they were)
Shall we go back to the old-fashioned method of hammering out stories on this forum? It seemed to work well enough in 2006, 2007, and 2008...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012