Re: Web Site Launch

[James Aldridge <]

In message <199607151340.JAA05836@localhost> 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@localhost 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

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