RE: Fewer Keyholes in 2005

At 02:00 PM 1/11/2005, White Wolf wrote:
>> I assumed it was the site designers at UAL, but now it
>> looks like it could be the developers at MS.  Do you have any
>> insight into what causes this problem?
>
>The problem is clearly in IE.  Last time (when you have brought up the
>issue) I have tried to look for all sorts of possible solutions.  

I remember your efforts.  Unfortunately, I misunderstood that this was a
browser-specific problem.  I thought it had to do with HTML standards,
etc. 

>The worst effect of this timeout-keyhole (did I really find a keyhole type
>here?)

I think you did, thanks for pointing it out.

>comes when it is backed up by a bug in the code.  The bug is that the
>code has no idea about time zones.  So when Deutche Telekom has installed
>their all-bells-and-whistles new webmail interface at freemail.hu, I was
>unable to see my emails. 

Very clever.  Sigh.  I can see Americans making this kind of moronic
mistake, but I'd expect more from Germans.  Maybe they subcontracted to a
US firm for that part of the code...

Scott