Re: Cloudy Nights vs. Astromart Articles

From: guid0 (priest_at_gunga.din)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:59:11 -0400

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 01:18:33 -0500, jerry warner <jwarner@aint.net>
stepped up to the plate and batted:

>some of us no longer have access to Astromart and until somebody surfaces
>with what the software requirements are, that will remain the case . I hate to
>keep
>making such a big deal about this - it would seem a very simple request to ask
>what
>Astromart now requires to acess it site, but nobody to date has been forthcoming
>
>and gracious with this basic information. All we know is the "old stuff" no
>longer
>works, whatever "old stuff" is. Beyond that we are totally in the dark and
>blanked
>out. I am not the only one affected.
>Jerry Warner
>

The rule of thumb is ie 5.5 and up for the current crop of asp-based
sites. Unless you're using windows 3.1 or a macintosh, go to
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and pick up the latest IE and the
rest of the critical updates that turn up and you should be fine.

For the mac, get the latest ie that runs on your OS at
www.mactopia.com

If you have windows 3.1, you're out of luck I'm afraid.

If you still have problems after that, you have something on your
machine that's causing problems (such as the sun java suite) or your
IE privacy and security settings are set too high. (cookie handling,
level of security, etc...)

If you're a Netscape kinda guy, get version 7 or the latest build of
Mozilla at www.mozilla.org

Herb's site is pretty straightforward and should work flawlessly with
most browser offerings.

Heck, I've been able to use astromart on a FreeBSD box using Opera as
a browser.

G../0

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