What's happened to the drop down menu's - Page 3

roger the rabbit · 07-15-2010, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

I think roger was referring to that stoimen.com blog, that had an interesting article about why static content like images should be served from a cookie-less domain. Roger, if you Google, there are plenty of other articles on that topic, if you are interested.

Thanks - just wondered why it would be on the PeerBlock hit list.

Gwaihir · 07-18-2010, 05:13 AM

I wonder, why use the domain name 4dots.com for this? How about a static.mobileread.com to serve all such over CDN?

Alexander Turcic · 07-18-2010, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwaihir

I wonder, why use the domain name 4dots.com for this? How about a static.mobileread.com to serve all such over CDN?

Yes, that would work. But in terms of optimization, cdn.4dots.com is better. The reason being, we use cookies on *.mobileread.com, so for every request to a static file on static.mobileread.com, your browser would also send the *.mobileread.com cookies. That's an unnecessary overhead. Now, of course we could restrict the cookie for the forum to www.mobileread.com, and the cookie to the wiki to wiki.mobileread.com, and so on, but our plan is still to integrate the two, so it makes sense to keep the cookie "global".

Lexi Revellian · 08-20-2010, 06:45 AM

Can you tell me how to enable 4dots.com? (I've read the thread and it's obviously so simple you don't need to tell most people - I'm the exception, alas.)

GeoffC · 08-20-2010, 06:48 AM

I didn't need to ....

roger the rabbit · 08-20-2010, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Lexi Revellian

Can you tell me how to enable 4dots.com? (I've read the thread and it's obviously so simple you don't need to tell most people - I'm the exception, alas.)

You only need to if you are using something like Peerblock, adblock plus or other software blocking access to & from your computer from selected sites.

Are you using any of these? if not you should not need to.

Are you not seeing the drop down menu's from the top blue bar?

FlorenceArt · 08-20-2010, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Lexi Revellian

Can you tell me how to enable 4dots.com? (I've read the thread and it's obviously so simple you don't need to tell most people - I'm the exception, alas.)

You only need to if you use Firefox and an extension that blocks scripts from unknown servers. But I think you would know how to do that if you did. What browser are you using, what OS? Do you have javascript disabled on your browser?

FlorenceArt · 08-20-2010, 07:05 AM

Oops, too late

roger the rabbit · 08-20-2010, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Oops, too late

Nope! just a finger press difference

Lexi Revellian · 08-20-2010, 07:45 AM

Thanks! I'm not seeing the drop down menu from the blue bar. I'm using Google Chrome, and AVG.

Wetdogeared · 08-20-2010, 07:56 AM

Alex made the following suggestions from a similar situation.

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Good catch. Yesterday we've started to offload our static content (e.g. images, javascript and CSS) onto a CDN to improve page loading performance.

Make sure you enable scripts from 4dots.com and you may also need to refresh your browser cache (CTRL+F5).

FlorenceArt · 08-20-2010, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Lexi Revellian

Thanks! I'm not seeing the drop down menu from the blue bar. I'm using Google Chrome, and AVG.

Sorry, I don't use Google Chrome so I can't help. Hopefully someone who knows will come by to help...

Lexi Revellian · 08-20-2010, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Alex made the following suggestions from a similar situation.

But how do I enable scripts?

FlorenceArt · 08-20-2010, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lexi Revellian

But how do I enable scripts?

I found this Google help page (I hope it displays in English for you, I got the French version

). Does this help?

Wetdogeared · 08-20-2010, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Lexi Revellian

But how do I enable scripts?

I'm using Chrome and didn't have to do this, since the default allows JavaScripts, but the steps are:
Tools>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings>JavaScript

I have mine set to "Allow all sites to run JavaScript (recommended)

If you don't allow all sites to run JavaScript, you can make an exception for 4dots.com.

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07-18-2010, 05:13 AM	#32
Gwaihir The Windlord Posts: 119 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Netherlands Device: iRex DR1000S, BeBook Club S	I wonder, why use the domain name 4dots.com for this? How about a static.mobileread.com to serve all such over CDN?

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Lexi Revellian Groupie Posts: 172 Karma: 200001 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: London Device: Kindle keyboard	Can you tell me how to enable 4dots.com? (I've read the thread and it's obviously so simple you don't need to tell most people - I'm the exception, alas.)

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08-20-2010, 07:45 AM	#40
Lexi Revellian Groupie Posts: 172 Karma: 200001 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: London Device: Kindle keyboard	Thanks! I'm not seeing the drop down menu from the blue bar. I'm using Google Chrome, and AVG.

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