On Fri, 24 May 2002 02:52:11 UTC, Alon Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:
> Stan Goodman wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 May 2002 23:23:43 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Clark) opined: > > > > > >>Stan Goodman wrote: > >> > >> > >>>So it seems that something in the page's Java is screwing up the > >>>browser. > >>> > >>Although the language is unreadable to me, it seems that the problem may be > >>on your end as it comes up fine here... RC2/Scache.071... > >> > > > > So it seems. > > > > > >>>If somebody can see what it might be, > >>> > >>Can't help there... > >> > >> > >>>and also tell me the address of the webmaster (if shown on the page), > >>> > >>If it's there I can't read it... Sorry... > >> > > > > If it were there, you would be able to read it. URLs and email > > addresses are always in Latin characters. > > > > Thanks anyway. > > > > > > page says webmaster is www.gsites.co.il which takes you to www.scepia.com Yes. There has been a little progress here, and I've been able to get that far. Scepia is, in fact, a subsidiary of the health-care organization that owns the site; its sole function is to develop the site. I wrote to them and asked how to get to the page that I can use to get my test results, and the answer was "the link at the left side of the page". None of the links on the left, or anywhere else, do that. Fortunately, he also gave me a direct URL, so I was able to get to the form, which (for identification, since there are other forms on the site) has two blanks only. After I filled them in, I discovered that there is no link for "Go", or "Continue", or "Next", or anything equivalent. I immediately wrote back to tell him this, attaching a screen capture of what I see, and asking him to point out such a button. I have heard nothing from him (the weekend here is Friday-Saturday, so he may answer on Sunday). The site is very new, so it is not surprising that it still has small insects, but the lack of a Go button and the absence of a link from the home page to this form are remarkable. I should describe what made it possible for me to enter the site without a system hang. As Mozilla was when I first asked the question, the Default Character Coding was for ISO-8859-1 (Western), which seemed to me the logical choice because most sites are in plain ASCII text, and I have several Languages specified on that page of the Preferences, using several different alphabets and writing systems. For laughs, I changed the Coding to ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew), and this opened up the site for me. I did not disable Java. But I am mystified, because I doubt very much that the others who have said on this thread that they have had no difficulty with the site are using Hebrew coding as a default. Why was this necessary for me and not for others? I have not yet tried to view Russian or Arabic pages with this setting, so I don't know if I will have to change the default coding for them; I doubt it, because I suspect that the site itself is defective in some way -- it is a fact that the change has not been necessary for other Hebrew pages. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman". The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you. 200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat (1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European wrinkle.
