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Left-handed Internet Explorer browsing.
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:26 pm
by raum
I have a convertible notebook, and was wondering if anyone has an extension or plugn, or ANYTHING to make the scroll bar in IE on the left side of the window.
a firefox plugin will not work, and no browser suggestions will keep me from ignoring the MANDATORY USE OF MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER I NEED FOR THE WORK I DO.
In particular until the SSO oracle platform of the EIA reporting mandates of the DOE will launch in any other browser or accept HTTPS FTP sent from any other broswer, they are useless to me. No one in the govt can validate the time and research necessary to integrate them, and the support is just extra work no one has the attention and resources for.
I am trying to find resources for what I have that may have escaped my attention. In detail, I am looking for Left-Handed extensions of plugins, for ergonomic purposes.
if it is a configuration that fits in the entire windows OS and is winXP compatible, that would be fine.
Thanks from a south-paw,
Ch
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:35 pm
by RIMFIRE
I have some info I how to easily do it in a Macintosh....... :afro:
*sorry to troll, but it HAD to be said*
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:37 pm
by raum
RIM,
that was great. really. can i strangle you now? /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
actually, post it. maybe this can turn into a support group for configuring southpaw interfaces.
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:46 pm
by raum
actually, maxthon migt be a way to go...
anyone else tackle this>?
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:23 pm
by teh1337357
All I've been able to find is for Linux and I saw one about a Mac, but it didn't say how. Can't think of any other way that you could get it to work that way.
MS Knowledge Base came up with nothing. Google came up with nothing.
Sorry man.
Care to explain where Maxthon does it? I took a look at their site and saw no mention of it.
EDIT: Don't yell at me for this, but there MIGHT be a way to do it through Firefox, but it actually uses IE itself too. There's an extension for FF that enables you to run embedded IE in FF. It's actual IE, but in a tab inside of the Firefox window. So in short, you're accessing with IE in a Firefox window. So I guess if you could find a way to get Firefox to get the scrollbar on the left and it's compatible with this extension (work is still in progress for it), this might work. I don't know if it would help, but it's just an idea. It might be hard-coded into Windows.
http://ietab.mozdev.org/ is the link if you'd like to just see what this extension actually does.
Again, it's just an idea, but even though it's using Firefox, it's using IE truly. Just check out the link (I'll paste it here in a minute or two) and see if any of the features you need aren't compatible yet.
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:35 pm
by raum
lol, i'm not going to yell about it...
and if it works, that is what matters.
this is a classic case of "success is the condition of compatiblity."
thank's for the tip! i might check it out this weekend, and test it next week.
Ch
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:23 pm
by teh1337357
QUOTE(raum)lol, i'm not going to yell about it...
and if it works, that is what matters.
this is a classic case of "success is the condition of compatiblity."
thank's for the tip! i might check it out this weekend, and test it next week.
Ch
No prob. I was just afraid you'd see Firefox in the answer and flip a shit, seeing as you weren't too happy in the other thread before.
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:47 pm
by raum
i am joking about firefox,.. btw.
i just hate the name.
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:12 am
by WAY
http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/info/eg1.html
The code that generates the left-sided scrollbar:
CODE<BODY dir=rtl>
<DIV dir=ltr>
...
</DIV>
</BODY>
Now, if you can somehow wrap each page in the <BODY> tags with the dir=rtl argument, like a transparent proxy, or something like Trixie, then you got yourself a solution! (and I've done one of your "Programming Requests" /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />)
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:51 pm
by raum
you are a tease! How do I add it as a proxy ?