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From: Ian Singer <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] What are the great individual genealogy websites?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:44:21 -0400
References: <4C901922.4090006@nconnect.net><9E0AFFFE934E49DBB12BAAC9A42F4DCF@Heidi> <BLU0-SMTP83F423638D26C2C3965837D3790@phx.gbl><97A16E321B224E8C82F4C85655DE15F3@BERT>
In-Reply-To: <97A16E321B224E8C82F4C85655DE15F3@BERT>


On 9/15/2010 2:57 PM, Barry Carlson wrote:

> Ian Singer made some comments about Heidi's site, and the most
> notable was that on the third page the scollbar wasn't working in non
> Internet Explorer Browsers.
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heidisfamily/myawards.htm
>
> There are a couple of things that need to be done to rectify the
> problem, and they are:-

So is the problem the fact that the scripts were poorly written, or are
written supporting functions that only IE has?

Whatever it is it demonstrates that a site should be tested with
Firefox, IE and Safari and that proprietary calls should not be made.
For a real shocker try looking at some sites on a smart phone (no thanks).

As a standard I also use Ad Blocker Plus, with Firefox, and I am finding
that with it turned on more and more pages on www.nytimes.com just
appear as a blank until I turn it off and reload the page. I hate that,
but hate ads more, especially the ones that slide in. If a site is going
to be running ads on it you should also make sure that the page will
appear if the ad is blocked.

Ian Singer

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