[thelist] AOL ate my website

[Alan Mccoy]

If they're referring to the graphics being 'bad and all messed up', then
that wouldn't be too uncommon in AOL. We had a client recently who used AOL
to access the web. When she previewed the work we did, the graphics looked
severely downsampled (seemingly, to something below 256 colors) However,
when we asked her to view it in standalone IE using the same AOL connection,
it looked fine.

I was told that the reason for this is AOL caches the images for all their
web content at a lower resolution to enable stuff to download 'quickly'
through that big-ass front end app. We've had other image glitches show up
only in AOL's browser before.

Try to get a little more detail from the client to help you nail down the
problem.

BTW, dogs don't go to heaven...they reincarnated as postal carriers. Talk
about Karma!!

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phil [mailto:phil at xlab.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:45 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] AOL ate my website
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just finished one of my first sites using php and mysql 
> for a client -
> http://www.equality-ne.co.uk - and they seem pretty happy with
> everything....except they've come back saying that someone 
> has been in touch
> proclaiming that the site looks 'bad and all messed up in 
> their browser'.
> 
> I fear that this person may be using AOL and getting some 
> pretty strange
> results. To be honest I've not seen the site through AOL (I 
> know, bad move),
> but as it only uses tables and fairly basic html I thought it 
> would be okay.
> 
> My questions :
> 
> Is there a way I can run AOL without having to input all 
> kinds of billing
> information? - I only want to use it for testing.
> 
> Is the AOL browser based on another browser engine (e.g. 
> Netscape, IE) which
> I could test with instead?
> 
> Is there a way I can trap information about the browser to 
> 'sniff' it out
> and alert users?
> 
> Where can I find information about the saturation of AOL 
> browser usage?
> 
> and finally.. do all dogs go to heaven?..
> 
> Any help appreciated!
> 
> --
> Phil
> 
> 
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