Subj : Freebies
To   : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Tue May 03 2005 09:06 pm

WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-> WC> Mozilla told me nothing, Konquoror told me the exact non-compliant
-> WC> HTML instruction.                                
-> WC> Even named the HTML standard it violated.
-> WC> I'll give it a shot, thanks.

-> WC> Tried Dillo too and it wouldn't load either.

-> This is where "view source" comes in handy,  if you know anything
-> about how HTML is supposed to look.  It ain't that hard,  mostly,  
-> though the contorted crap that some software comes up with is 
-> another story...

 WC> Well Konquoror gave me the faulty, non-compliant command.

 WC> I've messed with HTML a bit and it looks dead simple.

 WC> BTW neigther LINKS nor LYNX would open the site :-(

 WC> Charles got in with a later release of Firefox amd a reload.

Some sites are just *so* bad.  I was talking to somebody last night about one,  
that has the gall to use the word "global" in their name -- and which has been 
a PITA for several years now.  I heard about it,  went to check it out,  and 
could only get so far with it,  which was a shame,  because they seemed to 
offer some certifications and a bit of training material.  So I wrote them 
about it,  and got told that "they only worked with IE and Netscape and I 
should install one of those".  To which I responded "This is bullshit" and 
every email from that point onwards carried that subject line.   :-)

Fast forward a couple of years.  Now they have a "browser capability test" that 
you have to get past to use the site.  Their list of "ok" browsers also 
includes Mozilla,  but my copy of firefox,  which is based on Mozilla,  
wouldn't get past it.  It barfed on the browser name,  it barfed on the version 
number (!),  and it barfed on such things as me not having flash 
enabled/installed.  Excuse me?  WTF to I need that for?

So I'll find my info elsewhere...

You could talk to those guys,  and see if they can possibly understand the 
problem with the site,  and if they won't change it,  then that speaks volumes 
toward their attitude in general,  and they are probably best avoided anyhow.

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