In an effort to whore some more XP... No, that's not right.

In an effort to create Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt..., No, that's not right either...

Because I can't leave something that works perfectly well alone... Yes, that's it!

I've done some major revamping on the internals of the stats pages. Non-mandatory cookies are now supported, so that if you're willing to use cookies, you can set a default start page (like you XP graphers, I know who you are!), whether to use CSS, non-CSS ("Old Netscape") or Best Luck for table rendering, and 'Auto News'.

Setting the default start page is easy. Go to the page you'd like to be your start page, then click the Preferences button, and select 'Update Preferences'. Now, whenever you come back to the stats pages, you'll be taken to your favorite page. This is mentioned in the help, but if you bookmark the site, PLEASE make sure there is not a '?goto=xxx' (that means some value, not stats pr0n!) in the bookmarked URL. The default start page only works when the '?goto=' isn't present, since '?goto=' tells the system what page to go to.

Regardless of what some cretins maintain about HTML, the tables are designed to be rendered in a certain format, namely, without breaking on spaces, so each record is on one line. When it's wider than the screen, well, that's what the horizontal scrollbar is for. At any rate, browser incompatibility has become a favorite rant of mine. You can read more about that here. This option is designed to (hopefully) let you pick whichever mode best renders the tables on your browser.

Auto News works similiarly to the default page. Whenever I update the news, an internal variable is changed. If the value in the cookie is not the same as the internal value, you'll be taken to the News page. The cookie will then be updated with the new revision level, and you won't see the news until it's changed again.

I've also tried to clean up the HTML a little more, and hopefully not introduce any glaring new bugs. As usual, if you find something, please don't hesitate to e-mail or /msg me. Or if you come up with a better way to present any of the information, I'm always open to improvements.

--Chris

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