Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:02:38 -0700
From: "Jerry J. Haumberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ERRORS 52, 55 & 75
On 2000-03-08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Walter Scott> said:
>The problem here is the changing nature of HTML on webpages. CNN's
>website is a good example of an instance where at least one of the
>errors listed by Jerry will occur in version 1.11.2 or version 1.12
>BETA of Net-Tamer. These changes are occurring as websites upgrade
>their webpages or possibly their HTML editors. For whatever reason,
>Net-Tamer is unable to cope.
Walter... thanks for the response. Actually, before you replied, I
started wondering whether or not my problem was related to the access
of a website -- and wouldn't you know, it *was* a CNN weather site that
I have normally accessed many times before (for satellite pictures)
that caught me off guard. Really, it's disgusting. What's most
aggravating about it is that you never know when these people have
changed anything with their websites until you crash at their doorstep.
This is not just a problem with Net-Tamer's compatibility, but it's
a problem with inconsiderate website designers. If the same rights
we expect in normal democratic societies were practiced on the Internet,
such behavior would be promptly classified as minority abuse and
protests and/or lawsuits would follow!
>Will David Colston deal with this problem? We'll have to see
>He was told of it about a month ago. One thing is for certain:
>if this issue is not substantively dealt with, Net-Tamer's web
>browser could soon be so limited in the number of websites to which
>it can gain access that using it would be pointless for too many
>people.
Personally, I don't think that any of us -- at any time during its
development -- could consider Net-Tamer's *browsing* ability to have
been a serious feature of its design. It's just far too limited to
be taken seriously on a professional level. But for casual basics
where graphics are not that necessary, it's certainly worth further
development. For example, we know that there's a lot of excess and
duplication of information on the WWW -- why not make Net-Tamer
capable of informing us of what we can and can't access and suggest
to us alternate sites that *can* access the material that we seek?
At least Net-Tamer should have a better warning mechanism to prevent
us from crashing at unfriendly sites. Is such a feature possible?
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