Author Topic: How about this? (Read 4607 times)

weldiger · « **on:** August 01, 2003, 07:35:39 AM »

Hey, talking about what browser or what extras needed to view a page. --
Who can see this, and what do you see, and how did you get it?

This is a pop up do you get a picture?

wd

Gregg · « **Reply #1 on:** August 01, 2003, 07:40:04 AM »

When do they announce the winner?

Using some version of IE on a Dell with some version of Windows.
Clueless on identification of same.

MrsLop · « **Reply #2 on:** August 01, 2003, 07:50:39 AM »

Morning weldiger,

At first click, it looked like a carpet; I just used my scroll slide.

You have to scroll down almost a half page. The ad is
"Win a Cooper" and asks you to enter info in certain fields to enter.

They do have a picture of the car.

As for my browser, I am using IE 5.1, on my Power PC
4400/200.

Hope this helps.

MrsLop

Diana · « **Reply #3 on:** August 01, 2003, 08:36:03 AM »

Hi Weldiger,

You don't say what you see, but I see a mess..

Using Mozilla 1.5a on Linux, I saw a quick flash of a car picture, then the whole window looks like an animated mass of static.

I looked at the source code and found where there is actually a ".gif" file named static.gif that is set to be the background for a table cell. This cell is defined with the attributes for size in percentages, but the code is not valid. This would appear to be why that static.gif covers the window instead of staying inside its own little cell as it should. I typed in the URL straight to the static.gif and found it to be a small square image of static.

I found the image for the car and put it into a separate URL and saw a really cute Cooper..

Let us know what it is you see. That page is useless to me since I can't see past the static image once it loads. If I was visiting a page that provided this pop-up, I wouldn't see it then either since I'm telling Mozilla to block all pop-ups..

see ya,
Diana

jepinto · « **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2003, 09:01:14 AM »

Using tabbed browsing in NS 7.01, it resizes my entire window

Lindsay · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2003, 09:06:05 AM »

With Safari 1.0 and an iMac G4, I get a textured black-and-white display that looks like carpet, and at the very bottom, half of 2 wheels of the car.

Lindsay

kelly · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2003, 10:34:55 AM »

Speaking of cars.

"Why My iBook Reminds Me Of A Renault 4".

http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarr...7/29/index.html

pendragon · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2003, 10:45:39 AM »

As noted by Lindsay and Diana, Safari's pop-up blocker precludes seeing the Mini Cooper, but with IE 5.2.3, there it is!

Harv

Diana · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2003, 11:44:48 AM »

QUOTE(pendragon @ Aug 1 2003, 11:45 AM)

As noted by Lindsay and Diana, Safari's pop-up blocker precludes seeing the Mini Cooper, but with IE 5.2.3, there it is!

Harv

Hi Harv,

I can see the window through the link the Weldiger provided because it is a direct link...not a pop-up in the strictest sense. I mentioned that I wouldn't be able to see it if I visited the page that provided it as a pop-up because of Mozilla's abilities only because Weldiger mentioned that it was a pop-up.

Being a pop-up has nothing to do with it's viewability as an HTML document. The HTML in that document is faulty and I believe that Mozilla and other browsers mentioned are unforgiving of the errors...hence the strangeness. If you see that strange "carpet" or "static" with Safari as I do with Mozilla, it isn't because of any pop-up blocking Safari is doing for you. Safari is recognizing a mistake in the HTML and refusing to render the page in some way other than it was encoded. I say Hooray for Safari..

IE is, should we say, "forgiving" or "lax" or downright faulty in its rendering of that document's HTML. Granted all browsers have their idosyncrisies about what they will render, but I have always disliked IE's propensity to allow mistakes in coding.

see ya,
edited for spelling

pendragon · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2003, 11:56:20 AM »

Diana, I really knew all that you just said. It's just that I'm so modest.

Still, it's good that you pointed that out. I mean, uh, for the others...

Many thanks!

Harv

Diana · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2003, 12:25:06 PM »

hi Harv,

words..sometimes hard to make sense out of them.

I thought you were saying you couldn't see that link because it was a pop-up and therefore blocked by Safari.

I understand now. Thanks for accepting my explanation anyway.

pendragon · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2003, 12:42:51 PM »

Diana, Now I am really embarrassed. You properly interpreted my original comment. I truly did think the issue related to Safari’s pop-up blocking.

My subsequent comment (where I said that I knew/understood what you said...) was meant to be a bit of irony, because in truth, I was totally clueless. Oh my shame…

BTW, I will continue working on a way to BIOB!

Harv

Diana · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2003, 01:07:54 PM »

LOL Harv,

and I'm usually so good at irony/sarcasm.

How about I stick my leg across the aisle and trip Bernie next time he passes by. You slap the BIOB sign on his back while he's down and we're all set.

ya Bernie..

SnowWitch · « **Reply #13 on:** August 01, 2003, 05:43:45 PM »

This is quite interesting. I have 4 browsers opened.....Safari and IE 5.2 on the iBook. With Safari I see the grayish carpet looking "whatever" about 3/4's of the way down and the wheels. With IE 5.2 there is a flash of the gray, a "toot" "toot" and then the whole picture of the car.

On the p.c. I have the MSN8 browser opened and IE 6.0.2 and I don't even see the text link at all in either of them. I have one more browser to open on the iBook (that is MSN8 for Macs)...trish

Bill · « **Reply #14 on:** August 01, 2003, 05:58:48 PM »

After playing around resizing the window, I got the gif [above], car and I think a blank black background.

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