Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OFF-TOPIC: free webhosting at Xoom giving trouble
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 19:12:54 -0400

I've had exactly the same experience with xoom.  I have since abandoned my
web page that I had there.  If you already have frames on your page, it
seems each of them get the damned 'Xoombar'.

Dan C.

At 11:20 PM 12-06-99 +0200, you wrote:
>My webpages are hosted at the free webservers of Xoom. I have had 
>relatively good performance from them, until a couple of months ago when 
>they introduced the Xoombar. This is a small title bar on top of the 
>first page of each page.
>The trouble is that since then, visitors can get a frame alert message 
>and are unable to view pages if they are using Netscape Communicator or 
>Navigator. No troubles with Internet Explorer. And, even more strangely, 
>the problems do not show at all time with Netscape. Sometimes it works 
>fine, sometimes it won't work at all.
>I have noticed that other person's pages at Xoom are affected by the same 
>issue.
>I have flagged this problem up to three times to Xoom but never got a 
>reply.
>Anybody has experience with this?
>It's very annoying because visitors think that something is wrong with my 
>pages, which, obviously, is not the case!
>
>Pascal
>NO ARCHIVE
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