[thelist] This site will make you cry (to the tune of ...

Dan Romanchik dan at danromanchik.com
Thu Jul 11 08:53:01 CDT 2002


AAARGH!!  I misread the original post. Sorry.

timesnewroman.net is really one of the worst I've seen in a while. In
addition to all that crap at the beginning, they pop open a new window for
just about everything.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Romanchik" <dan at danromanchik.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: [thelist] Re: [thelist] Re: [thelist] Re: [thelist] This site will
make you cry (to the tune of ????????????


> I thought it was quite ironic that this site would be commenting on the
> usability of another site. I clicked "continue anyway," but didn't get
very
> far doing that. I never did find the article referred to by aardvark.
>
> Dan
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Gallagher" <mark at cyberfuddle.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:09 AM
> Subject: [thelist] Re: [thelist] Re: [thelist] This site will make you cry
> (to the tune of ????????????
>
>
> > Mark Groen wrote:
> > > On July 11, 2002 at 1:22, aardvark wrote:
> > >
> > >>didja see the one zeldman blogged today?
> > >>
> > >>http://www.timesnewroman.net/v2/
> > >
> > > I emailed them with my concerns about their site, and every other
> > > site that I come across that is not accessible. Maybe if everyone
would
> do
> > > the same the message would get home to the owners that pay for such
> crap.
> > > It only takes a minute or two/three and, (wishful thinking but I hope
> not) if
> > > more people would complain we might see less of it.
> >
> > I followed the link and received a "your resolution is too high, please
> > cripple your ability to view several windows at once in order to see our
> > site properly".  Following the "continue anyway" link popped up the
> > awful site, no worse for wear because of my illegal use of a 1171x950
> > window size.  Hitting "back" and choosing "fix problem", got me to:
> > <http://www.timesnewroman.net/v2/dir.htm>.  Well, I *knew* they were
> > morons (asking me to decrease my desktop size, FFS), but they apparently
> > don't know that non-Windows operating systems exist.  Hmmmph.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Gallagher
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> >
> >
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