From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V4 #73 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Friday, July 20 2001 Volume 04 : Number 073 In This Digest: ----------------- Re: Website uplift [meredith ] Re: Website uplift [Michael Curry ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:36:30 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Website uplift Hi, I just tried to check out sarahslean.com for the first time in a while. I say "tried" because I can't get past the front page. Am I the only one who resents being shut out of a site just because I don't want all of the bells and whistles running on my choice of web browser? I use AdSubtract, which kills web site ad banners, cookies, pop-up windows (even that horrifying, ubiquitous X10 pop-under ad that has been polluting the Web for the past several weeks) and other JavaScript. Call me a Luddite if you want, but I really don't like having to turn it off just to get to a web site that wasn't set up with consideration for people with older web browsers that don't have all the fluff. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org ======================================= ectofest 2001: August 25, 2001 A benefit for RAINN Kenosia Lake Park, Danbury, CT http://www.ectofest.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:57:36 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: Website uplift At 10:36 PM 7/19/01 -0400, meredith wrote: >Hi, > >I just tried to check out sarahslean.com for the first time in a while. I >say "tried" because I can't get past the front page. > >Am I the only one who resents being shut out of a site just because I don't >want all of the bells and whistles running on my choice of web browser? I >use AdSubtract, which kills web site ad banners, cookies, pop-up windows >(even that horrifying, ubiquitous X10 pop-under ad that has been polluting >the Web for the past several weeks) and other JavaScript. Call me a >Luddite if you want, but I really don't like having to turn it off just to >get to a web site that wasn't set up with consideration for people with >older web browsers that don't have all the fluff. In this particular case, the current web site is apparently shown entirely in a pop-up window (except for one title page). My assumption is that this "microsite" is an intermediate stage before the full web site is done, and that the full site won't be so unnecessarily annoying. Michael [who didn't order the ep 'til yesterday cos he didn't find the samples especially compelling, but hopes the actual ep will change his mind] ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V4 #73 ******************************