Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:54:10 +0100
From : andrew.hancock@... (Andrew Hancock)
Subject: [OT] bbcdocs website problem
send me the URL, and we will test here on IE6,7,8,Firefox, Safari etc
we do web development!
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Sent: 28 July 2010 17:13
To: Rick Murray
Cc: bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] [OT] bbcdocs website problem
Would a few of you be kind enough please to see if there are still problems
looking at the PDFs. I want to be sure it is fixed.
-Mark
On 28 Jul 2010,@17:05, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:
> On 28/07/2010 17:47, Andrew Hancock wrote:
>
>> I hope all you folk giving advice to Bob, are going to donate some needed
>> cash to help him upgrade his computer now he has SP3 and IE8!!!
>
> Try SP3 and <anything else>.
>
> Seriously - IE8 is sooooo slow.
>
>
>> just because he couldn't download a pdf!
>
> At least he stands less chance of being pwned, now he is using an OS
> that is actually still in support cycle. Now we ought to work on
> filtering unwanted inlines (Flash, etc).
>
> What's better, a slower computer, or one you have to reinstall once you
> discover it's been sending your credit card info to Thailand and your
> forum/eBay/Amazon/etc passwords to Lithuania...
>
>
> Trust me - once you block all the advertising and crappy scripting
> pulled in from other places, the web is suddenly a much more happening
> place. The information you're looking for appears, without the
> requirement of a few hundred Kb of advertising along with the latency of
> looking up, then connecting to, multiple servers.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rick.
>
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>
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