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(...) It takes a couple of minutes just to view the home page, even with the rewrite. Why are you using ASP at all? Why not use Perl, PHP, JSP, or just about *anything* but ASP? --Bill. (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Seems nice and fast, even on my crummy work connection. And speaking as an ASP programmer currently having to write in PHP, ASP is so much better. :) It is especially speedy if run using Chillisoft on Unix James (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Well, it certainly doesn't from here. Perhaps (hopefully) it was a transient thing. (...) ASP.NET is a vast improvement over ASP. I know I will be wasting my breath arguing its virtues compared to JSP/PHP etc. because I suspect you (and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:Gtor8z.293@lugnet.com... (...) Good, another Bill Gates worshipper :-) (fut: off-topic.geek) Huw (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I normally use Netscape, and it took minutes for the home page to come up, but when I fired up Internet Explorer, it came up fairly quickly. As much as I hate Microsoft for railroading Netscape, there seems to be no way to avoid using Explorer (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) What version of Netscape do you use? I use Mozilla 0.9.8 and came up almost instantly. (Netscape 4.7, otoh, was hopeless.) If you're using a Netscape 6 and seeing this problem, try upgrading to a Mozilla build. (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) There are a couple of html problems on the home page. The one causing the problem is a <table> instead of a </table> near the end, shortly after function ValidatorOnSubmit. When this is fixed, I can load the page in Netscape 4.7 in under 15 (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"John Herre" <jherre@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:GttLro.GyJ@lugnet.com... (...) function (...) 4.7 in (...) Whoops... thanks for spotting that! I have corrected it, and will go through the rest of the home page source code files later on. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ah, that would explain a lot. Netscape 4 is extremely picky about having a </table> for every <table>. If you don't, it will not display the table at all. (...) Netscape 6 is a complete rewrite of Netscape 4, based on the pseudo-open-source (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.publish)
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