WinBert?
KillerUT
strips on the website. Happened about four days ago.
KT
cal
"KillerUT" <kill...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone else use WinBert? My copy seems to have stopped accessing
> strips on the website. Happened about four days ago.
>
> KT
I don't use it but dilbert.com changed to adobe flash recently so maybe that
is the reason. Have you been to the site lately? It's a total bloat-fest.
They took something simple and fast and made it complicated and slow. This
is exactly the kind of thing that Scott Adams likes to make fun of.
Ironic.
KillerUT
Ugh. That site is bad. Thanks for the tip.
--KT
WildCard
>
>I don't use it but dilbert.com changed to adobe flash recently so maybe that
>is the reason. Have you been to the site lately? It's a total bloat-fest.
Ugh! So as someone who refuses to install plug-ins to their browser
(since 99.99% of flash content on websites are spam-vertisements), I
can no longer read Dilbert comics. How nice of them. Sorry, the
comic is not *that* good that I will let in all the spam just to read
it. So I guess that I have officially dropped Dilbert off my reading
list now.
WildCard
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foisted <480f490b$0$18429$39ce...@news.twtelecom.net> on
alt.comics.dilbert.
This just in:
>In article <x5FOj.58541$i_6....@fe06.news.easynews.com>, cal <d@f.c> wrote:
>>
>>I don't use it but dilbert.com changed to adobe flash recently so maybe that
>>is the reason. Have you been to the site lately? It's a total bloat-fest.
>
>Ugh! So as someone who refuses to install plug-ins to their browser
>(since 99.99% of flash content on websites are spam-vertisements), I
>can no longer read Dilbert comics. How nice of them. Sorry, the
>comic is not *that* good that I will let in all the spam just to read
>it. So I guess that I have officially dropped Dilbert off my reading
>list now.
>
>WildCard
Help is at hand: http://dilbert.com/rss/ - use a syndication reader
like http://www.bloglines.com/ and read the strip at your leisure, in
syndication, minus the evil flash stuff.
Ryno
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cal
"Ryno" <ry...@rynosseros.com> wrote in message
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> On 23 Apr 2008 14:34:51 GMT, wild...@fnord.io.com (WildCard)
> foisted <480f490b$0$18429$39ce...@news.twtelecom.net> on
> alt.comics.dilbert.
>
> This just in:
>
>
>>In article <x5FOj.58541$i_6....@fe06.news.easynews.com>, cal <d@f.c>
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>I don't use it but dilbert.com changed to adobe flash recently so maybe
>>>that
>>>is the reason. Have you been to the site lately? It's a total
>>>bloat-fest.
>>
>>Ugh! So as someone who refuses to install plug-ins to their browser
>>(since 99.99% of flash content on websites are spam-vertisements), I
>>can no longer read Dilbert comics. How nice of them. Sorry, the
>>comic is not *that* good that I will let in all the spam just to read
>>it. So I guess that I have officially dropped Dilbert off my reading
>>list now.
>>
>>WildCard
>
> Help is at hand: http://dilbert.com/rss/ - use a syndication reader
> like http://www.bloglines.com/ and read the strip at your leisure, in
> syndication, minus the evil flash stuff.
>
>
>
> Ryno
Great, thanks for that.
Goetz R. Schultz
Second that. Great hint, much appreciated.
Eagle
<snip>
> They took something simple and fast and made it complicated and slow. This
> is exactly the kind of thing that Scott Adams likes to make fun of.
I signed up for the email of the day version of the site. I use
text email and tell my browser to view useful links. The new site
sends a daily email you can read with an HTML capable email reader
but dutifully gives the alternate text format with nothing that
resembles the daily email... just an ad. It would be typical
expect that the request was for the Daily Dilbert Cartoon.
David
WildCard
>
>> Help is at hand: http://dilbert.com/rss/ - use a syndication reader
>> like http://www.bloglines.com/ and read the strip at your leisure, in
>> syndication, minus the evil flash stuff.
All this feed does is give me links to the daily flash-only pages, not
the actual viewable comic strips. Sorry, but this is not a solution
to the problem of dilbert.com requiring the readers to accept their
animated spamvertisement if you want to read the comic strip. MAJOR
FAIL!! This used to the very stuff that the comic strip made fun of.
Very sad to see them now being part of the problem.
Ryno
foisted <482462a4$0$18418$39ce...@news.twtelecom.net> on
alt.comics.dilbert.
This just in:
>In article <PG%Pj.108926$i_6....@fe06.news.easynews.com>, cal <d@f.c> wrote:
>>
>>> Help is at hand: http://dilbert.com/rss/ - use a syndication reader
>>> like http://www.bloglines.com/ and read the strip at your leisure, in
>>> syndication, minus the evil flash stuff.
>
>All this feed does is give me links to the daily flash-only pages, not
>the actual viewable comic strips. Sorry, but this is not a solution
>to the problem of dilbert.com requiring the readers to accept their
>animated spamvertisement if you want to read the comic strip. MAJOR
>FAIL!! This used to the very stuff that the comic strip made fun of.
>Very sad to see them now being part of the problem.
I use the RSS feed via Bloglines, and see no advertisements.
Visiting the main page, I see no adevertisments.
Use of the appropriate Browser (!=IE) and plugins can solve the
spamvertisement problem. Archive viewing from
http://dilbert.com/strips/ was also possible in this manner.
Ryno
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cal
"WildCard" <wild...@fnord.io.com> wrote in message
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> In article <PG%Pj.108926$i_6....@fe06.news.easynews.com>, cal <d@f.c>
> wrote:
>>
>>> Help is at hand: http://dilbert.com/rss/ - use a syndication reader
>>> like http://www.bloglines.com/ and read the strip at your leisure, in
>>> syndication, minus the evil flash stuff.
>
> All this feed does is give me links to the daily flash-only pages, not
> the actual viewable comic strips. Sorry, but this is not a solution
> to the problem of dilbert.com requiring the readers to accept their
> animated spamvertisement if you want to read the comic strip. MAJOR
> FAIL!! This used to the very stuff that the comic strip made fun of.
> Very sad to see them now being part of the problem.
>
> WildCard
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip
The strips there are all .gifs, no flash