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>To all those who may have had trouble accessing the RL/GSE site at
>http://www.gil.com.au/comm/twd/league
> or  http://www.triser.com.au/league

>I have  temporarily removed the offending javascript affecting
>Netscape 2 users.

>Cheers ,
>Morry B.

>> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:35:18 +0100, Steve Morris

>> >Now your CGI is causing problems with IE2 and earlier!!!
>> >--
>> >Steve Morris

>> This site may have problem with IE2.

>> It has been designed for  the later versions of these browsers.  

>Yeah Steve, you old fossil.  Get with the times!!!

>Now your CGI is causing problems with IE2 and earlier!!!
>--
>Steve Morris

> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:35:18 +0100, Steve Morris

> >Now your CGI is causing problems with IE2 and earlier!!!
> >--
> >Steve Morris

> This site may have problem with IE2.

> It has been designed for  the later versions of these browsers.  

>>>> Now your CGI is causing problems with IE2 and earlier!!!

>>> This site may have problem with IE2.

>>> It has been designed for  the later versions of these browsers.  

>>Yeah Steve, you old fossil.  Get with the times!!!

> Sorry its all my enhanced 286 will cope with!!!!!
> --
> Steve Morris

> This site may have problem with IE2.

> It has been designed for  the later versions of these browsers.  

>> This site may have problem with IE2.

>> It has been designed for  the later versions of these browsers.  

>This is totally off topic, but...

>Is it just me, or was not html originally designed to be a language
>that could be read usefully with any browser? Or even with just an
>editor? People seem to have missed the point of it.

>Jim

>: >
>: >> This site may have problem with IE2.
>: >>
>: >> It has been designed for  the later versions of these browsers.  
>: >
>: >This is totally off topic, but...
>: >
>: >Is it just me, or was not html originally designed to be a language
>: >that could be read usefully with any browser? Or even with just an
>: >editor? People seem to have missed the point of it.
>: >
>: >Jim

>: Spot on Jim, the commercial imperative is f****** it all up, MS just
>: couldn't let the world benefit, they had to have a piece of the action.

>: Just for the record about 85% of all visits to the sites I run are on
>: Netscape Browsers, of which (off the top of my head) about 40% are not
>: Netscape 3 or later.

>Most of the visitors to the League Express site use Netscape 1 or 2.
>About 15% use something else, usually Netscape above 2, IE or Lynx. I've
>even found a few accesses through Mosaic!

>If I can't see it with Lynx from a VT-100 terminal screen then I don't
>use it at all and the object of the site is defeated.

>--
>Chris Russell           | Bradford Bulls - Wembley 1997
>Electronic Imaging Unit |
>University of Bradford  | Tough on St.Helens
>TEL: +44 1274 385463    | Tough on the causes of St.Helens.

Steve Morris writes:
> Spot on Jim, the commercial imperative is f****** it all up, MS just
> couldn't let the world benefit, they had to have a piece of the action.

> Just for the record about 85% of all visits to the sites I run are on
> Netscape Browsers, of which (off the top of my head) about 40% are not
> Netscape 3 or later.

>Steve Morris writes:

>> Spot on Jim, the commercial imperative is f****** it all up, MS just
>> couldn't let the world benefit, they had to have a piece of the action.

>> Just for the record about 85% of all visits to the sites I run are on
>> Netscape Browsers, of which (off the top of my head) about 40% are not
>> Netscape 3 or later.

>I get niggly because I use Lynx on a vax. Lynx is pure text: it can't
>display pictures nor even tables. It can do frames, which means I can
>hunt around most sites with it, but I don't see the prettying up. I do
>see the ***that goes with the prettying up though.

>Html was originally supposed to be about making information accessible
>to anyone in a standardised way. We are moving towards a situation where
>people spend their time worrying about how pretty their site is and not
>about what use it is. And so the average signal-to-noise ratio of sites
>is plummeting.

>Jim

Steve Morris writes:
> Fair comment Jim but image was (IMHO) a natural evolution for WWW and
> opens the whole thing up to the wider public.

>: Steve Morris writes:

>: > Fair comment Jim but image was (IMHO) a natural evolution for WWW and
>: > opens the whole thing up to the wider public.

>: I have no problem with images. Lynx handles them fine. It's when people
>: do things like reading coordinates on an image and using them to access
>: a page that text browsers like Lynx can no longer cope.

>Jim, just to annoy you, the guy who wrote Lynx (which is all I use too on
>Unix boxen) is also the guy responsible for the <BLINK> tag:

>       http://people.netscape.com/montulli/index.html

>: The thing that really gets my goat is when you download a web page and
>: it says "Best viewed with Netscape 3.0. You don't have it. Go away."
>: It runs totally against the whole reason for HTML.

>These people know not what they are talking about so there is nothing
>there worth reading anyway.

>For good ways of pissing people off the HTML Terrorism Page is a good
>source of fun:

>       http://zikzak.zikzak.net/~acb/hacks/htmlth.html

>: This is getting well off topic. :-)

>Yeah, but it's nice to have a rant now and again. I rant all the time and
>I'm the least likely of anyone I know to have a stress related heart
>attack. I could die tomorrow from cholestrol poisoning but it won't have
>anything to do with stress.

>--
>Chris Russell           | void kernel_die(char *str, struct pt_regs *regs) {
>Electronic Imaging Unit | /* Amuse the user. */
>University of Bradford  |      printk(
>Tel: +44 1274 385463    |      "              \\|/ ____ \\|/\n"

>Bradford Bulls          |      "              /_| \\__/ |_\\\n"
>European Super League   |      "                 \\__U_/\n");    
>Champions 1997          |      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>                        | }