Re: Dakota SXT (tonneau cover)

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 01:15:25 EDT


Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote:
: On Aug 29, 2004, at 21:24, Matt Brenneke wrote:

:> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:02:56 +0000 (UTC), jon@dakota-truck.net
:> <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote:
:>>
:>> andy levy <andy-dml@levyclan.us> wrote:
:>> : We bought from BMECovers.com IIRC.
:>>
:>> Thats the one! Thanks, I figured you'd remember. :-)
:>> Unfortunately, their web site is a whole lot of useless... I have
:>> tried several browsers, but all I get is a page of black.
:>
:> Same thing in IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera on OS X 10.3.

: Ditto OmniWeb on 10.3.

: Seems like a *whole LOT* of Javascript doing no good at all.... (the
: HTML source of that page weighs in at like 22k!)

  Yup. I'll never understand some people's fascination with
doing outrageous, complicated stuff which introduces all sorts
of problems, when something simple would do the job. :-P
(Ummm, this after I posted a message about hooking an electric
motor up to the water pump to drain the coolant instead of
pulling the block drains... but I didn't actually do it,
just talked about it.) :-)

  I played around with the HTML a little bit, and I think
the problem stems from using all those div tags with
"position : absolute". When I removed them, I could see
the page, though not formatted like it was intended to be.
(When are people going to get the point that HTML is a
markup language, not a WYSIWYG desktop publisher?) :-P

  Better to have no web site at all than one which nobody can
use! What has got me *really* curious now though is what web
browser are they using? I have to assume it works for *them*
because who would put up a page which is unusable? Weird,
weird stuff.

-- 
                                          -Jon-

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