Hi all, well this is the result of running the complainant's page (http://www.joblist.com.au) past the html validator (great tool) supplied by the world wide web consortium at http://validator.w3.org/: "[W3C] HTML Validation Service Results URI: Last Modified: Thu Sep 6 02:09:10 2001 Server: Netscape-FastTrack/2.0a Content Length: 1448 Detected Character Encoding: iso Select Character Encoding: Options: Show Source Outline Parse Tree ...no attributes Warnings * Warning: Character Encoding mismatch! The character encoding specified in the HTTP header («iso») is different from the one specified in the META element («iso-8859-1»). I will use «iso» for this validation. Sorry! A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character encoding yet, or you have specified a non-existent character encoding (often a misspelling). The detected character encoding was "iso". The error was "". If you believe the character encoding to be valid you can submit a request for that character encoding (see the feedback page for details) and we will look into supporting it in the future." They must have some kind of equal ops policy, and certainly should have an access policy for visually impaired / otherwise disabled readers. These pages must breach it. I'd suggest all interested Aussies bombard the relevant government departments so that they produce valid html and preferably so they rate with Bobby as well: http://www.cast.org/Bobby/AboutBobby313.cfm This page makes it clear that: "Many people with disabilities use special Web browsers, such as one that reads text out loud using a speech synthesizer for blind users." Best to all Fergus On Monday 25 February 2002 06:59, you wrote:
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Peter Sutter (sutterp@sopac.com.au) [020224 20:32]: -> ->rant mode on ->After I got rid of my Windoze based systems, I begin to regret the move;
I moved from Windows 3.1 (pre-install) to OS/2 back to Windows 98 (no hardware drivers for new machine) to SuSE Linux. I have never liked any flavor of M$, and never regretted moving away from the 'reboot' solution. ;-)
->specially since I am currently looking for work here in Australia. To ->apply for a government job here, one must download a 'job information ->package'. As I am using Linux now (Suse V7.3), there is not much joy in ->doing this. Because of the fancy web pages, Netscape just crashes out, ->Konqueror goes in to a tight loop because of sloppy javascripts and ->plugins, Lynx doens't work because it can't do javascript neither does ->the old Mosaic. I haven't tried opera yet. When one deals with with ->private companies, one has a choice to change to an alternative company, ->but when the government forces jobseekers to access their web pages and ->designs their web pages in such a way that these can only be viewed wit ->IE, it becomes discriminatory. Try their glorious site at ->http://www.joblist.com.au.
Please don't shoot me, but I just messed around choosing several options for about 15 minutes with no reponse issues what so ever.
I'm using the following:
Mozilla 0.9.8
CrossOver plugin Sun's Java V1.4 Macromedia Flash 5.0
I'm not sure why I would have better luck then anyone else. Give this combo a try. The CrossOver plugin costs though and I'm not sure that it makes a difference on the site.
When I first went to this site (Moz .9.8, Flash 5.0, Java 1.3.1), I only got a page saying " Thankyou for visiting /JOBLIST./ " After seeing all the success stories, I decided to check a bit more. I tried re-enabling the Java option in Preferences>Advanced>Scripts and Windows>Open unrequested windows (I disabled to kill those annoying ads :-) ), and voila, it opened and works fine. Maybe Peter, you also have this disabled in your preferences. HTH