[LINK] The Australian IT site.

Ivan Trundle ivan at itrundle.com
Thu Aug 30 09:54:21 AEST 2007


On 30/08/2007, at 9:37 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> When I go to the Australian IT web site:
> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/

Home page loads okay, but slowly, with Safari/Mac.

>
> I get an IE warning message:
>
> "A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly.  
> If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive.
>
> Do you want to abort the script?"
>
> And then a dialog box with another warning "Out of memory at line: 56"
>
> I'm running a locked down corporte SOE, so I can't turn off  
> javascript (which I assume is what is running)
>
> Can anyone with a non IE browser check out if it is just IE or a  
> really badly designed web site (or both)?

And going to a subsequent page fails. It tries to load for more than  
2 minutes, and it eventually stalls.

>
> The redesigned Australian IT site is far less useful than it used  
> to be, so, what with this inconvenience, I think I'll give it a  
> miss in the future.

Ditto, not that I visited it much in the first place.





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