"Blandon Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I apologize in advance if this is too far OT:
>
> I am not a Web developer, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable
> can tell me what this page is doing that disagrees with Mozilla.
>
> http://8ball.federated.com/
>
> You have to see it to believe it. But basically you type in a
> question and it's supposed to generate a stream of JPEGs which
> display the magic 8 ball's answer in real time. I tried asking it,
> "Is this browser any good?"
>
> Tried it in Netscape 4.7, and the 8 ball said "yes." In IE 5.5 it
> said "it is certain." (okay, it's 1 for 2.) If you try it in Mozilla
> 0.9.2, you get a message that says "your browser is busted if you
> just see this text."
I tried using it in IE, and a couple of frames were
broken images. I think this guy's script may get
ahead of his webcam.