Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 11/24/07 19:37

In alt.html, Mika wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>> No, at the time, JavaScript was enabled. And it was ten minutes when
>> I posted that, but the progress bar never stopped 'progressing' for
>> much longer until I finally killed the page, probably over twenty
>> minutes. I think it was more likely a server issue at that time,
>> simply not delivering whatever content was supposed to be sent. I've
>> noticed this several times looking at his page.
>>
>> As I alluded in some other post, it could have been that 'big pond'
>> betwixt the server and me.
>
> This is all very strange. You are the only confirmed visitor *with* JS
> apparently enabled, who seems to have their JS blocked for AdWords

The Google Adwords/Adsense servers are in our HOSTS file. We never see
them, on any site. This is somewhat common. Google for "HOSTS file"

> and Google Maps.

We use Google Maps all the time, and they are not blocked. We see your
map and never said we didn't.

> Those are the elements you claim did not appear with JS
> enabled, while you tested our site for 20 minutes.

Once again, the page was trying to load something (hourglass and your
progress bar) and it never finished.

> Now you are saying that the fact our servers are in the UK somehow disabled
> JS. :-S

We never said that. Stop making stuff up.

> We use the UK's most reliable company, LiquidSix, who have a
> 99.9% uptime.

Well then we think it must have been that 0.01% ...

> We still think you had JS off. Please try it now with JS on and our new
> validated code.

We did not have JavaScript off. Get to realize that, chums.

>> [1] Still has errors which Mika doesn't care about.
>
> Strange people here. We have spent 2 days refining the code to be as
> W3C friendly as possible. Why give us feedback, which we act on, if
> you are then going to make bizarre comments like that?

Bizarre? You yourself said (the "we" you refer to yourself as) that you
didn't care to fix the errors.

<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superhighstreet.com%2FGeorge-Street-Richmond%2Findex.shtml>
This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!
Result: Failed validation, 12 Errors

Why do you have target="_blank" on an <iframe> ?

<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superhighstreet.com%2FGeorge-Street-Richmond%2Findex.shtml>
No errors now, but 146 warnings.

and you still haven't assigned a background color to: body { }
That should take you about ten seconds to fix.

> If you have nothing nice to say, don't feel the need to respond.

"Your site is simply gorgeous, best site we've seen on the Web in years,
loads quicker'n a greased goose, and we'll shop there every day!!!1!!"

(Notice our use of "we" everywhere in our post. <g> Silly, ain't it?)

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

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