I've had Excite running as home page for years, so I'm well familiar with what Harry's feeling right now - doesn't look to me like there's anything intrinsically wrong with what he's trying to do. It appears that the Java server page Excite's trying to open when he clicks on the "edit settings' link is still compressed as a gzip file on the server, so it's not rendering onscreen and IE doesn''t recognize it as a .jsp file. The other edit pages (or, at least the ones I've tried so far) open without a hitch.
It looks to me like it's something Excite needs to fix on their end, which I imagine they'll do when they finish transferring the email database this week, assuming they're aware of the issue. Parenthetically, I much preferred the old Excite's dynamic html to the Java-driven new site, which doesn't come up worth a damn on Netscape and tends to be the source of more errors in IE than before. Sandbox.com did the same thing a few months ago, and it renders so badly in Netscape that I ended up having to change browsers just to keep maintaining my fantasy league teams. B. Eric Bradley, graphic designer and doer of stuff P.O. Box 4904, Louisville, KY 40204 USA The nicest guy you know. http://members.aye.net/~bericb The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 22. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>.
