Re: OT RE: [cobalt-users] Name server registration

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Jeff...I had many difficulties with the dotsterapi system...then, out of
> desperation, I accessed it via Internet Exploder...problems disappeared.
> 
> Email back and forth with the Dotsterapi folks resulted in the expected
> "works here, must be on your end", and a final admission that "there may
> be some problems accessing the system using Netscape."

I agree that it works a bit better with IE, but lots of us don't have IE
as an option, and it turns out that IE on the Macintosh series works
almost exactly the same way as Netscape 4.72 <frown>.  This weekend
problems existed with both IE5 and with Netscape 4.72.

I just finished an hour-long teleconference with Chris and George from
Dotster (Chris runs the reseller program, George is the founder an a
programmer/engineer.  They understand the issues, understand and respect
my business model, and are working on the problems.  I came away from
the meeting impressed.

I only hope they'll follow through so we can resolve the issues.  I need
a site that works for my clients in real time.

> I am by no means an HTML guru, but I do attempt to insure that my pages
> work with both Internet Exploder and Nutscrape.

I know what you mean.  I'm currently having the problem with
"http://test.nobaloney.com/index3.html";.  Care to look at it for me? 
I'd like the "menu" code to work in Netscape as it does in IE.  And I'd
like the left bars to continue down as far as you can see/scroll.

> The IE is the "only" browser though is so ingrained it's frustrating.  One
> local public radio station started a new service, and on their web page
> they had a convenient "fill in the form" to volunteer/send money/ask
> questions.
> 
> After about 5 emails, each one more heated and specific than the last,
> their web designer finally admitted he had never checked the page with
> netscape and didn't know how to "fix" it.
> 
> So, instead of sending money, I fixed the page for them.

Did you get your membership card and freebies <smile>?  Or just the
satisfaction?  My ISP (before I sold it) was negotiating with a local
NPR station to give them their own virtual ISP.  Fell through, though.

Okay, off-topic enough to stop now <smile>.  Any further, offlist,
please.

Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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