On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, at 08:57 [=GMT-0700], Einar Stefferud wrote: > Thanks Mark for the feedback. > I can plainly see that you did not knowingly choose what I see. > > I am running Netscape on a MAC, which might explain somethings, maybe.
I think this is the core of the problem. Works fine in Netscaoe under Windows98. Much have to do with 'translation' of colours on different hard/software. More below. > Both pages that I get from the URL are in very feint "ink", except > the links which are the only parts I can read without a big effort. Thanks for replying to my rather sarcastic message, for which I apologize. This seems again to be a croos platform problem. > The Typosquatting link is especially readable, but the page title says > "Non-Existent Domain" in extremely feint letters, Which also threw me off. Yes, this "non-existant domain" is a stupid joke, only intelligible to people who do dns. > There is some other very feint text by the links which I cannot read. > > So, the LINKS are the only readable stuff on either page, and the > rest is in very feint type, which looks like light blue to me, but it > is actually too > feint to even determine what color it really is. I have to find again this page that tells which colours are 'save' across all platforms. I do try my pages in Opera under FreeBSD as well as Netscape and IE under WIndows 98. I should not forget Mac users. I cannot try this myself (I have only some obsolete MAC hardware running NetBSD :-), but will check out the coulour codes, about which there is indeed information out there. I saw it in the past. > All in all, it is not readable for me, and I cannot figure out why. > > Is it some "feature" of MSN's invention trying to drive us all into using IE? > > IE shows it in readable white on black! Is this what you intended? > I expect that this uses a NEW MSN feature that Netscape does not implement. I think it is a MAC problem. But still, we should write our pages for all platforms. I get mad too when pages do not work in Opera on FreeBSD. > I only run IE in dire emergencies, such as this one. > And then I turn if back off ASAP. Well, we disagree a bit here. IE is not that bad, I think, as long as we are not forced to use it, which we sometimes are (banks here in Holland!). > MSN tricks will not convince me to switch;-)... > They only convince me more and more that MSN is a Pariah! > Hopefully, this kind of result will help train the world to not use > MSN "mis-features!" > > My solution is to not bother with stuff that Netscape cannot show in > readable form. Well, Netscape is some sort of a security problem, my FreeBSD ports tell me. They refuse to compile (well unpack I guess) it. So since I am not stubborn, I now run Opera on my desk top (and of course IE on my second M$ machine). Thanks for your kind reply! Marc > > Cheers...\Stef > > > At 06:26 +0200 10/10/01, Marc Schneiders wrote: > >On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, at 14:32 [=GMT-0700], Einar Stefferud wrote: > > > > > Very confusing set of URLs, requires a lot of careful thought to find > > > your page. > > > >Thank you for putting me on the right track! Let me try again: go to > >www.nxdomain.net and click on the one and only prominent link on this > >page "TypoSquatting" (cf. subject line). > > > > > Blue Ink on White Background is pointless in terms of readability. > > > What ever happened to black and white? > > > >Well, eh, the page is very much and only in black and white (and > >grey). I see no blue. If you are referring to some blue (for so-called > >hyperlinks) on white in the analog report I link to, well, eh, yes, > >this is not in the html, but, I guess, in your (satndard?) browser > >settings. If you'd like to get this pink on purple, tell your browser > >so. This is pretty standard html that analog produces. I did not > >tinker with it at all... Should I forward your complaint to analog? Or > >to Microsoft? > > > > > > If you want anyone to read what you are presenting, > > > please make it readable;-)... > > > >English prose is not my forte. I admit it. I am a foreigner. > > > > > If you do not want anyone to read it, > > > please do not invite us to read it;-)... > > > >Right. > > > > > rule #1: If you want the reader to see and understand you message, > > > you (the author) are responsible for making it readable, > > > and then for making it understandable. > > > >Absolutely! Thank you for all the efforts you put into this! > > > >God bless! > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Cheers...\Stef > > > > > > > > > At 20:38 +0200 06/10/01, Marc Schneiders wrote: > > > >Typosquatting was a hot topic about a year ago. I then decided to do > > > >my own little 'emperical' research. Results are at: > > > > > > > >http://www.nxdomain.net/ > > > > > > > >In short: it does not pay, except IP lawyers... > > > > > > > >-- > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Discuss mailing list > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >http://www.icann-ncc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > >
