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Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ?
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Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:55:46 GMT
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:41:19 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:

"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" wrote:
What's New?  Not much of anything, a whole lot of fanfare for no real new
info (except maybe the 8450 Mission Technic set).
Oh, and they went overboard on Shockwave - those idiots in their web design
team obviously never have to dial up to connect to the site!

Oh, and Javascript seems to be a requirement.  There are *NO* <NOSCRIPT> tags
anywhere.  This just after a glaring security hole was discovered in BOTH
Netscape and IE.  Grrr....  >:-(

Cheers,
- jsproat


I will take it from these two posts I'm not the only perso who HATES
TLG's web designs?  I happen to be running on an old 486 with only 16
megs of ram.  Getting Netscrape to load faster than a minute is doing
pretty good, but when they start doing all this java script and
shockwave crap, well, I kiss my system resources goodbye and hope I
can close netscrape before it closes (crashes) my computer.

I think I'm going to be boycotting the TLG webpage for the forseeable
future.

Kya



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  Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ?
 
(...) Yep. Overproduced... underengineered, and definitely undertested. That's what you get for letting creative do your web site design. Creative needs to be a resource to the techies that actually make things work or you get high sizzle and no (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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(...) Oh, and Javascript seems to be a requirement. There are *NO* <NOSCRIPT> tags anywhere. This just after a glaring security hole was discovered in BOTH Netscape and IE. Grrr.... >:-( Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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