IE5/6, but not IE4, doing unexpected

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <[email protected]>
, dated Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:13:04, seen in

Using http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/estrdate.htm and evaluation of
table 3 now gives the same correct results on all of my browsers except
Netscape 4.8.

However, I nearly wrote you a very different message. When I first
started checking, I was getting an RSVP error on all of the Netscape
family browsers. Then I received a connection refused popup. Then a
connection was very slow. Then, very suddenly, everything started
working correctly again.

One possibility is that you had a damaged copy of the include file in a
cache. I changed it a day or two ago, which should have meant a cache
reload.

There may have been issues at your server, at
a router, or somewhere else between your server and me. One thing to
keep in mind is that I am using an extremely fast connection. I
download at 2.55 Mbps from a test site and at 2.3 Mbps from my server.
I downloaded a program from Finland at about 2 Mbps. The point is, that
if a site links to other things, they need to be available much sooner
than on a dialup connection. I have no idea if this would have any
bearing on your pages, but I thought I should mention it.

I am on dial-up, but "my" Web server is not; it is at my ISP, which has
connections far faster than those you mention. However, they do impose
some form of limit on individual hosted sites, and you could be seeing
that. If possible, and if it happens again, you could try a different
time of day, or at the weekend.



I now have an Included function for writing a string to be the body of a
new page - NewPage(Title, Body) visible at estrdate.htm#JI - so I can
now quite economically write new pages (which pass W3's TIDY as a
checker) at a single stroke. I don't know whether adding calls to
window.open & window.close would be wise.


I hope some day to be able to do much what I did for the Prayer Book to
the Calendar Act annexed material itself, if it can be found; since it
should be the same, that should be easy. I had hoped to do the same for
the Papal Bull; but it now appears that the material I thought to be
concealed in 10 pages of Latin is in fact spread over 500 pages.
Clavius takes about two pages (either the print is small, or the pages
are large) to say, in effect, GN = 1 + Year % 19 ; .