OT: Serious site problem

The PDF links on the home page all work for me. I also tried various PDF links buried under lower level menus. I also tried it in Firefox, Chrome, IE8, and Vivaldi. No problems except for one missing link.

However: - The "Improved Clones" link points to a missing file. "The requested URL /HVREGPAT2.pdf was not found on this server." - Methinks (not sure) that the home page uses a fixed number of pixels for sizing the page making it look awful on small monitors (i.e. on my Chromebook). - The home page looks strange in IE8. Not sure why. - The mouse over bubbles that appears when dragging the mouse over the PDF button produce garbage text in a bubble. - There's an up arrow in Javascript on the right of the home page which is both misplaced and causing problems. For example, in IE8, it grabs half the screen for no content.

My guess(tm) is that whatever you're using to view PDF files on YOUR machine is broken.

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I am using Linux so this may not apply for Windows. But your pdf links worked for me.

Dan

All the PDF links seem to work fine. Do you perhaps have a Windows Explorer file opening program setup or browser helper/setup problem?

Bert

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On 7 Sep 2015, Robert Baer wrote (in article):

Similar experience to Jeff re. PDF links?the one to Improved Clones is missing, all others work as expected.

As a general rule it?s important to view your newly-developed or -changed web pages with a variety of browsers (and versions of each) on various OS?s (particularly non-Windows ones) to assure a consistent user experience, if that?s important to you. It?s all too common to finish a web page and look at with your whatever-version of IE and conclude all is well. It?s pretty simple to email compatriots (Linux and Mac users notably) and ask their input, especially when it?s such a small site.

Good luck.

Dave

Everything looks and works fine for me (Firefox 40.0.3 in Windows 10 with NoScript and Adblock Plus running). I see none of the issues Jeff Lieberma n saw. What did you do? For that matter, who told you things were broken an d what were they using to access your page?

Mark L. Fergerson

It appears he fixed the broken link.

Cheers

Using Firefox, I cannot get the "Open the PDF" links to work with a left-click. However, if I right-click a link and choose "Open Link in a New Tab", it works fine.

Good luck.

• CORRECTION * The statement is with respect to Win2K. There is a PDF link i would dearly like to include in the HTML, but it is impossible to get it to work (Win2K, WinXP, Win7).

The code line: Capability Statement PDF I recently added the "type" specifier to no avail. What is real sh*t is that HTML code for other PDF documents (same and other pages) work......same code, just a different document name. Could it be that my CSS is screwing it up?

• You were using WinXP or Win7; nothing works in Win2K. Sorry i was not eXplicit enough.

• I found the same problem, but the file existed. Finally deleted it and re-FTPed it and that seems to work now (Win7).

• Not too surprised; that is what i get for buying a template from TemplateMonster that was supposed to be tested but was NOT. They never fixed it, took months of complaining and fiddling (do not know HTML coding, and CSS is a swear word) to get what you see.

• I think i have that version on my Win7 HD; thanks for mentioning that. Will check it out; do not know if bumbling will allow a fix.

• Thanks for mentioning that; will check it.

• If clicking on one of the PDF buttons does NOTHING, the viewer is not relevant (again, in Win2K).

Thanks for the useful eXplicit feedback.

That is VERY useful to know. Any comments you would like to share WRT "fitting" different screen sizes?

No, i was not eXplicit enough; the problems are in Win2K.

The nasty thing is,that is EXACTLY what i did roughly 5-7 years ago. I suggest that NOBODY should buy any template from TemplateMonster. They DO NOT test them; they lie about that. If you press them hard enough, they _pretend_ that they fixed your problem and give a completely nonsense and unrelated excuse. Months of that BS. Took three hard drives and up to four different partitions to support the browsers. PITRoyalA.

Took me months to sort-of fix it; had to do all of it on my own by constant HTML (and css) code fiddling. Css is Z-rated to me (ie: not fit even for adults).

There was a lot of "duplicate" pages and some "duplicate" CSS to do that. Mostly worked. Could not test for Mobile. The damn code was supposed to work for them (and their various flavors). If a mobile "phone" has problems,then TS as i cannot fix broken CSS.

About 3 years ago,i removed almost all of that garbage (extra code) fiddling, relying that (almost) nobody used the outdated stuff.

Interesting that IE5 worked better than IE7/8 (do not remember which one); it cannot support "sliders".

Thank you VERY much for your observation WRT Win10. I grieve for your stolen files,but that is a problem that you walked into by installing/trying Win10.

I "told myself" about the problems; they exist in Win2K and not WinXP or Win7 (and now thanks to you) not in Win10.

Thanks again.

Was not obvious; had to delete the file on the server, and FTP upload it again for the fix. Do not ask what was wrong; have ZERO clue(s).

The "wonders" of software. You were (obviously) using WinXP or Win7 or "better".

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 09:21:12 -0700, Robert Baer Gave us:

First of all, that US flag that pops up is an abomination, and planting text over it is as well.

** Yes, had IE8. Could not find either problem with 1024x768 nor with 800x600 resolution. If you see a wide scroll bar,that is due to a screen resolution of 1024x768. This website was "optimized" for 800x600 resolution as that was the "biggest" my hardware would handle, and testing elsewhere showed that the 1024x768 resolution made everything too darn small for my eyes. All fixes in place and looking reasonably decent here.

• Could not find an up arrow anywhere.. Screen capture and/or code snippet from "View Page Source", etc please.

First of all, nothing "pops up"; what you see other than the sliders, is a part of the HTML page/code. Second of all, there is no text "over it"; some of the text is above, and some of it is below.

Now that we have descriptive corrections in place, may i ask WHAT makes it "an abomination"?

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:09:43 -0700, Robert Baer Gave us:

Incorrect aspect ratio for the shape of the flag. Incorrect star count. Incorrect displayed colors.

You are clueless, obviously.