IFReviewed by
Andrew Plotkin on 2006-07-01 05:00
I play most of these games on my home machine, which has no Web browser, since I don't have TCP/IP access from home. So Remembrance wasn't playable, of course.
Today I finally remembered to look up the link while I was still at work.
Here's what happened:
I went to the Remembrance page, using my standard graphical browser. (That's iCab, if you're interested.)
I read the note that said that JavaScript was required. I tried the form button on the bottom of the page, which didn't work, since iCab doesn't support JavaScript. Fine.
I found my old copy of Mac Netscape 3.0.1, which I never use, since it's so slow and ugly and unstable.
I found the preference to turn on JavaScript, which I never used even when I still used Netscape.
I went back to the Remembrance page.
Two windows popped up. One was a banner ad window, which started flashing crap at me. The other was a JavaScript error, saying something about "Alert" having the wrong number of arguments.
And the form button on the bottom of the page still didn't work.
No, I will not upgrade to a slower, uglier, and more unstable version of Netscape. JavaScript is a broken way to implement a competition game. Goodbye.
