Browser recommendation
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:21 pm
I am stepping out of my usual non-technical role around here to tackle a browser issue. This is not my bailiwick and I hope I don't get in over my head. 
Since the beginning of BEW, Wolfschadowe and Kexter have been pretty good at making the game browser-neutral. We have users playing the game on Edge, Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, a whole host of Apple/Mac browsers I know little about and who knows what else. Pre-release testing is done on Firefox.
Until the last release, the browser selected by users made little difference. With that release, a new feature was introduced to make achievement tracking easier. If you look on the achievement page and hover the mouse pointer over the completion bar for a given achievement, a bubble now will pop up, listing the required sub-achievements and showing progress with check boxes. With this new tool, a player can know exactly which achievements he/she has completed and which are still undone. This is a big improvement over the "old days" when we just had to guess what was missing.
A problem has cropped up with this new feature only. It works perfectly with Firefox but many other browsers will not scroll the lists and instead show only a single "page" of entries for each major achievement. If a given major achievement has more than 12 or 13 sub-achievements, the browser will truncate the list at that point. In other words, you may not be able to see the rest of the longer lists. This is not a failure of the program but rather a limitation of the browser.
Many players will not care about the achievements so this will not matter to them. For those who do care, I am suggesting you solve the problem the way I did. Download Mozilla Firefox and use it to play the game. I still use Chrome for everything else but play BEW in Firefox. It seems to be the only way to make the new feature fully functional. As a bonus, I have found that I like the way the game plays in FF better than in Chrome.
We have no connection with Mozilla. This is just a suggestion to help our players get the most out of the game.
Since the beginning of BEW, Wolfschadowe and Kexter have been pretty good at making the game browser-neutral. We have users playing the game on Edge, Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, a whole host of Apple/Mac browsers I know little about and who knows what else. Pre-release testing is done on Firefox.
Until the last release, the browser selected by users made little difference. With that release, a new feature was introduced to make achievement tracking easier. If you look on the achievement page and hover the mouse pointer over the completion bar for a given achievement, a bubble now will pop up, listing the required sub-achievements and showing progress with check boxes. With this new tool, a player can know exactly which achievements he/she has completed and which are still undone. This is a big improvement over the "old days" when we just had to guess what was missing.
A problem has cropped up with this new feature only. It works perfectly with Firefox but many other browsers will not scroll the lists and instead show only a single "page" of entries for each major achievement. If a given major achievement has more than 12 or 13 sub-achievements, the browser will truncate the list at that point. In other words, you may not be able to see the rest of the longer lists. This is not a failure of the program but rather a limitation of the browser.
Many players will not care about the achievements so this will not matter to them. For those who do care, I am suggesting you solve the problem the way I did. Download Mozilla Firefox and use it to play the game. I still use Chrome for everything else but play BEW in Firefox. It seems to be the only way to make the new feature fully functional. As a bonus, I have found that I like the way the game plays in FF better than in Chrome.
We have no connection with Mozilla. This is just a suggestion to help our players get the most out of the game.
