bigbluecup.com not working under other browsers?

[NotABot32]

Hello there!  I'm a long time AGS player and forum lurker... and none too pleased.

I had thought the site (adventuregamestudio.co.uk) had been down these past two months, but the answer was not what I expected.  Two months ago I had switched from IE to Firefox, and it would seem that the coding used on the site is only IE-compliant; that's two months of not knowing how many new games were passing me by-

Just as the community of AGS gamemakers weave their tales in many languages, so do the casual and hardcore fans hope to access said tales via many web browsers (be it IE, Firefox, Opera, or whatever.)  It is unfair to block anyone from the forums just because they may not be native English speakers, so the same should apply to adventuregamestudio.co.uk blocking out anyone not running IE as their web browser (it certainly is unfair to me, trudging to someone else's place or to the library just so I can write this post....)

I realize that changing the proprietary IE-specific coding to a standard that any browser can read takes time... but it would be time well spent, and one less hurdle for your fans to jump.  Thank you.

[Radiant]

I've been using Firefox for years now and this website works perfectly fine with it.

There has, however, been some confusion between "www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk" and "www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk", but that is unrelated to browsers.

[scotch]

It's fine in all modern browsers, and IE too. Your inability to access it could be for any number of reasons.

[NotABot32]

All right, I tried www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk, and it still didn't work.  I have noticed that quite a few websites don't take well to my Clearwire-equipped, Athlon Turion64 powered laptop, adventuregamestudio.co.uk included.  I've already done a full defragging and virus scan, and the firewall isn't blocking this site; maybe my computer has some bad karma?

Oh well, it's not that bad going to some other computer, just a little inconvenience on my part....

[Radiant]

I've already done a full defragging and virus scan, and the firewall isn't blocking this site;

Defragging is irrelevant to your situation. Since the virus scan didn't turn up anything, did you try Ad-Aware to check for browser hijacks?

The more drastical approach would be to re-install firefox, and/or re-install windows. Windows can be rather volatile, after all.

[Mantra of Doom]

Are you on any sort of university network? I know this seems like a silly question, but when I was at college, there was a whole semester where I couldn't go on several websites (mostly RPG or game related) that the dorm firewall deemed to be "sending out viruses". It was annoying, and I ended up reformatting my computer for nothing because the ISP was trying to get rid of viruses a bit too aggressively.

Just a thought though, I've had computers randomly stop wanting to use sites before and a good format helped.