Re: Opinions wanted

Freda:

If you are using IE-5 and move your mouse over the "links", the status bar
at the lower left of your browser clearly shows them to be .doc files.

I would guess the problem to be the rather impolite omission of identifying
what type of "link" they were by the webmaster. How many of us actually
check each link for address or type before we click on it?? I have the same
type of links on two of my novels but they are clearly identified as .doc
(Word) files.

Your browser is correctly doing it's job here. It's doing exactly what the
website asked it to do.

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/


> It doesn't bring up that box though, that was just a stab in the dark
>
> Ben Bradley UK
> Creative Director
> http://www.thenetzone.co.uk
>
>
> > >Yeah this annoys me too.
> > >IE5 (not sure about 4) automatically launch Excel and Word files in the
> > >browser when you download them but I've never heard of one opening up
> word.
> > >Are you sure you didn't click 'Open File From its Current Location'
> instead
> > >of 'Save To Disk' when the dialogue comes up for an http or ftp file
> > >transfer request from the browser?
> >
> > Sorry Ben, but no, and I have a sane witness to prove it!  I just
> > left clicked once to follow what looks like a normal link, there was
> > no message of any kind from the browser. I visited again on my Mac
> > and now see the status bar shows the link is to a .doc file.
> >
> > The page is http://www.chipcoll.ac.uk/positions.htm.
> >
> > BTW, my post to the Webmaster bounced (sigh).
> >
> > Freda
> > --
> > Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut who stood her ground. -
> Unknown.
>
>

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