Hello! Rob, it happens that you are not the only one who is annoyed by those dratted things. They make the site unavailable during loading when it's being loaded by IE, and it drags on Mozilla, both on Linux and Windows.
About the only good thing about the site is its good lucks, it has an easy to use navigation method behind it. I believe I've got the settings arranged to block that function on both browsers.... -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rob van der Heij > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT: Use of surfstats etc on IBM web sites > > Am I the only one being annoyed by the way IBM implemented their > visitor statistics? There seem to be (javascript) things connecting to > sites with surfstats and such. At least on my browser (Mozilla) they > have a negative effect that it prevents navigation on the page until > it has fully loaded. My impression is that these statistics sites may > not build on the framework of replica servers that IBM uses for the > real content, and thus has higher latency for me. > I know I can put them in adblock again (lost that with windows > re-install) but it seems like a silly cat & mouse game to me. > > I did share my concerns with one contact in IBM, but he said he could > not care less because anything above the dotted line was not his > responsibility... > > Rob
