Re: this sounds like a whine I know.....

Michael Sullivan said on 12/2/2003 10:04 AM:

> az-willie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> [gammon village is nasty on my browser]
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> > Strange, I've never noticed any problem with their site slowing things
> > down or gumming up the works. Only using cable modem but it seems ok to me.
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> Well, it may be an interaction with my browser.  I'm using Explorer 5.1
> on a mac which I figure is standard enough that it ought to work well
> with any site that doesn't offer a lot of real-time interaction.  I
> suppose I should try it with Safari or iCab, but I have a real peeve
> about sites that can't seem to provide primarily textual content to any
> standard browser in a timely fashion.  I don't think they deserve any of
> my money until they learn how to write web pages properly.
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> Michael
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The problem probably is with your browser. I use Firebird for my browser 
( child of Mozilla ) and have problems on some websites including my 
broker. Firebird and Mozilla are designed stricktly in accordance with 
internet standards and that causes them to fail on many web pages 
because they are primarily designed to look good in Internet Explorer 
which is not standards compliant. So web designers deliberately design 
non standards compliant web sites for the most common browser.

And then to top off the problems of web sites not designed according to 
standards, you're running a Mac which is just asking for more problems < 
shrug >.

Since the site works fine in Firebird I tend to believe it is set up in 
accordance with current standards and your browser probably is not in 
compliance. The site actually works fine in IE and Firebird so I 
strongly suspect the problem is your browser.

There is a version of Mozilla for Mac OS X called Camino ... you can get 
it free at mozilla.org.

It might work better for you.

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