Thanks again Rick for going the extra mile to help me out here. I
know it isn't a redesign issue. I just used the page today after
regressing to IE 7, but the regression seemed to damage something,
because I could no longer do a Windows update, so I was forced to
reinstall version 8 since being able to update Windows is a wee bit
more important than making my Audible experience more convenient. I
am thinking that these blurbs are some sort of imbedded text, perhaps
connected to an image on the page. What you get with them is
basically the first four or so lines of the publisher's summary., and
it cuts off at what seems like an arbitrary point, sometimes in the
middle of a sentence indicating to me that there is a hard limit to
the amount of text included. I've had some sighted members of my
family look and they also do not see the text anywhere. I am
beginning to wonder if it is what I guess you could call a ghost of a
feature of the old site, something designed to pop up with a
mouse-over that is part of a template for book entries that just
never got removed but that hasn't been updated. To add to the mix,
I temporarily installed WE on a sighted friend's computer that also
has XP service pack 3 with IE 7 and was able to find the blurbs ,
though my friend did not notice anything popping up with the text WE
was reading. This is just plain odd. Nobody at Audible email or phone
has any idea of this feature, artifact or whatever, though all have
promised to send queries on to the website folks. If it is an
artifact of the past, or an unintentional feature, perhaps they can
figure out how it works and make it an intentional feature.. If I can
figure out how to go back to IE 7 without the errors I encountered
today I am going to do so, I just find it too useful. But if I can't
get back to 7, I guess I will just have to do things the old fashioned way.
Thanks,
Chris
At 05:28 PM 1/6/2010, Rick Ely wrote:
Chris,
Pulled up ZoomText to do my best to look at the pages. Started with
the Audible Best Sellers list, and then went to the NY Times list.
Neither of these groups had any description beyond the release date
and the length. Arbitrarily, I then selected "Fantasy Contemporary"
as another kind of grouping. Since I rarely look at the screen when
doing my Audible order, I was surprised that the first of the pages
of this category had items arranged not as I had expected in a
single column but rather in rows of \four items. Again, there were
no descriptions, not even the release date or length.
I am wondering if about the time you migrated to IE 8 there was some
redesign of the Audible site.
It seemed to me when the company was bought, there were some notable
changes to the site. I know that for me the pages became more
cumbersome to work through, but having no old pages to compare, I
was not sure.
Hope this helps and if there is anyone on the list with
20/20 vision, might you check the site and report what you find?
Rick
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