Date:         Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:10:22 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Searching archives
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4E371F31.10003@gmail.com>
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the point I was trying to make is that we have quit a good portion of browsers that don't work. Dave gave us one data point, his browser Firefox 3.6.18, that works.

There is no indication on the site what browser to use. At least that would give the indication there are archives to search. Folk who get a blank page won't likely know what the heck is going on and they won't go back.

There is a feeling that we should just shut up and be happy we even have the archives, but it is the members that made the darned archive. "Daddy" won't fix it, "Daddy" obviously doesn't know or care that it is broken.

alistair







On 2011-08-01, at 2:48 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> Yeah, well, the Vanagon archives ain't a commercial enterprise, I reckon
> we're all just darn lucky that they are there at all. I suspect there is
> no one to change the page coding.
> 
> I see Dave's point, namely that the archives are the archives and if you
> want to web browse them, you have to use whatever works to see them. But
> I think that it would be a little silly if we needed to use the 1993
> NCSA Mosaic browser.
> 
> I'll give that email method a shot.
> 
> -- RJS