[LINK] Not a good morning for email

[Howard Lowndes]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 13:13, David Lochrin wrote:
> At 11:53 15-01-2004 +1000, Webb, KerryA wrote:
> 
> >> The same consultants who supply code for putting a useless 
> >> date and time on web pages? Which time is displayed on the 
> >> web page: where the publisher is located or the user? Even 
> >> if the time is technically correct, such as on 
> >> the ACT Government home page <http://www.act.gov.au>, what 
> >> use is this to viewer? 
> >> 
> >
> >From my recollections of the discussions held during the design phase, the
> >display of the local time gives the alert reader an idea of whether it's
> >currently during the working hours at the ACT government.
> >
> >Kerry
> >(not really speaking on behalf of the people responsible for the portal)
> 
>    Que?  What on earth is the connection?  Wouldn't it have been more straightforward to show a little sign saying "The Government is  [IN]  (or [OUT])"
> 
>    I couldn't see any clock this afternoon.  But I notice the "Building our city..." slogan box at the top-left is bisected by a vertical white bar when displayed by Mozilla V1.3.1.

The clock is at the very top (1:24pm AEDT Thursday 15 January 2004), and
the broken image is also visible in Moz 1.2.1 as well.  It looks like it
might be a problem with the way that the tables are rendered as there
appears to be no other obvious problem.

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