In message <199607151340.JAA05836@trystero.media.org> you write:
My, we've become inflexible in our old age. ;))
Bookmarks are not meant as a workaround for webservers using non-universal non-standard-HTML feature. And in my view especially an organisation like RIPE should be universally accessible, without workarounds, and thus should stick to the HTML basics.
They did. You have two versions. It works ... give them a break. They did a good job. Be gracious and applaud their initiative!
The problem appears to be that from the announcement of the new pages on Friday until this morning there appeared to only be the one, "Netscape Enhanced" version -- both Mosaic and Lynx returned less than useful blank pages. Not wanting to burden this list with the matter, I sent mail to webmaster@ripe.net over the weekend (as I suspect others did too) pointing out the problems. Today this list seems to have been full, on the one side, of complaints from people who either haven't looked at www.ripe.net since this morning (or who haven't refreshed the pages in their local caches) and, on the other, people who didn't look at (or try to look at) the new pages over the weekend saying that were no problems. Can we please bring this argument to a close. I think that the important point, that the information on www.ripe.net should be readily available irrespective of browser, has been made and RIPE have updated the pages to make this so. James ======= ___ === James Aldridge, Network Engineer, ====== / / / ___ ____ _/_ ==== EUnet Communications Services BV ===== /--- / / / / /___/ / ===== Singel 540, 1017 AZ Amsterdam, NL ==== /___ /___/ / / /___ /_ ====== Tel. +31 20 6233803; Fax. +31 20 6224657 === ======= [ 24hr emergency number +31 20 4210865 ]