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Date:         Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:54:22 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: microbus website
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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At 05:39 AM 1/11/2001, Andrew Grebneff wrote: >IE & Goto.com can't open the vw.com/microbus website, at least on my >computer it can't (Mac w/damaged hard drive & 14.4k modem, faulty IE copy).

That site is clearly intended for people with fast connections. With Netscape it just popped up a 600x400 window and sat there; with IE5 the popup then downloaded the Flash 5.0 plugin and has so far d/l one and a quarter megabytes comprising two 10-second video clips with a one-second ghost view of the right front quarter and a three-second one looking up the right side from the rear, both blended in with shots of people on windsurfers, bicycles, rocks etc. Now it's up to 1.6 MB and hasn't finished loading the third video. I like pain, but not this much pain...apparently if you want a microbus 56k isn't enough.

Ok, so I hit the button to skip all that yaya (apologies to any yiayias on the list), and now I have a screen that says "Welcome to th eworld of the Microbus. Want to know more abou tthis concept? Just click your cursor once, wherever it is, to reveal our navigation." So I click the cursor once. And I walked around the wheel house twice... and nothing happened so I clicked again... ...and again... ....and againagainagainagain....and nothing happened. So I clicked the button to shut the bleeding sound off!!! And it shut off. And a minute later it came on again all by itself.

Diagnosis: not cooked yet.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation"


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