[Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-16 Thread Geoff Wicks
Quanta members will know that the last Quanta Magazine they have received was the June/July 2008. We have been promised an emergency August/September/October 2008 issue but this is now almost 2 months late. One consequence is that membership renewal forms will almost certainly be received by me

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread John Gilpin
Geoff Wicks has made some very valid points in his email and I am grateful to him for this timely prompt. QUANTA Magazine - I did offer to edit two 3-monthly issues of QUANTA Magazine to see us to the end of Volume 25. The first of these issues covers August/September/October 2008 and is now in d

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Rich Mellor
John Gilpin wrote: Geoff Wicks has made some very valid points in his email and I am grateful to him for this timely prompt. QUANTA Magazine - I did offer to edit two 3-monthly issues of QUANTA Magazine to see us to the end of Volume 25. The first of these issues covers August/September/Octob

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread John Gilpin
/subscriptions/index.asp which should take you straight there. Regards, John G. - Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others Hmm - not that user friendly

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Rich Mellor
/subscriptions/index.asp which should take you straight there. Regards, John G. - Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others Hmm - not that user friendly - I

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Tony Firshman
Rich Mellor wrote, On 17/12/08 19:01: Nope - it definitely does not work on my system - you just get a static QUANTA logo - it would help if the link had a tooltip as well ! It does work in Firefox however unless you use the IE Tab plugin to display it using the internet explorer rendering eng

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
> I don't have that plugin in Firefox 3.0.4 on the Mac and Windows and it > works. I do though *hate* flashing on the display. I find it very hard > to concentrate on other parts of the display. Works fine on Linux with Firefox 3.04 here as well. I agree about the flashing though, very annoying

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Geoff Wicks
uot;John Gilpin" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others Hi Rich (and others having the same problem), If you look at the top of the menu on the HOME page, you will see a flashing display. Click on that and

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Rich Mellor
Tony Firshman wrote: Rich Mellor wrote, On 17/12/08 19:01: Nope - it definitely does not work on my system - you just get a static QUANTA logo - it would help if the link had a tooltip as well ! It does work in Firefox however unless you use the IE Tab plugin to display it using the internet

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: "Geoff Wicks" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others John, using IE I have no problems getting the link to the Quanta Subscriptions page, but then when I click t

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Geoff, > It does seem that there is a problem specific to IE, Ok, I can't resist, . only one problem? Relating to IE I mean, not to the web page itself! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Stephen
Works fine here in Firefox v3 +/- IETab, and Internet Explorer v7. Also Opera Mini v4 and the standard browser on my BlackBerry. On 17/12/2008 20:43, Rich Mellor wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: Rich Mellor wrote, On 17/12/08 19:01: Nope - it definitely does not work on my system - you just get a

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Roy wood
In message <49495993.5060...@dunbar-it.co.uk>, Norman Dunbar writes qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk, I can see that by far the most people hitting my site use Mozilla browsers. Probably biased by the interest of the people hitting the site. M$ still have the largest market share although it is dwindl

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-17 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
Roy wood wrote: In message <49495993.5060...@dunbar-it.co.uk>, Norman Dunbar writes qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk, I can see that by far the most people hitting my site use Mozilla browsers. Probably biased by the interest of the people hitting the site. M$ still have the largest market share

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Firshman
Roy wood wrote, On 18/12/08 00:08: In message <49495993.5060...@dunbar-it.co.uk>, Norman Dunbar writes qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk, I can see that by far the most people hitting my site use Mozilla browsers. Probably biased by the interest of the people hitting the site. M$ still have the larges

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-18 Thread Roy wood
In message <494a0146.8000...@digitalanswers.biz>, Rick Chagouri-Brindle writes never been compliant with HTML standards and website have to use all sorts of tricks to get it to work properly in IE and standards compliant browsers. With each revision of IE MS promise to make it more compliant

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-18 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
Absolutely, I couldn't agree with you more. Microsoft ignored html standards for years and got away with it because they had effectively sewn up the browser market - if a site works in IE then 99% of the viewers were happy. Now that is changing, with Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and the othe

Re: [Ql-Users] IMPORTANT WARNING to aspirant chairmen and others

2008-12-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
I suspect I'm not the only one who remembers all those web sites with the little icon/graphic saying something along the lines of "Best viewed wit Internet Explorer". Well, "the times they are a changin'" as one Robert Zimmerman would have probably said! IE is becoming the lame dog of the browser