UGH! New KCStar.com site . . .

[Kendric Beachey]

On Tuesday, 19 February 2002 10:18, Bradley Miller wrote:
> Has anyone been to the new www.kcstar.com site? (AKA www.kansascity.com
> channel crap?)   What a rip!   The new site won't retrieve stories in
> Netscape, the contact us page comes up but won't display any feedback
> boxes, and in IE the stories come up but the feedback page won't even
> display at all?
>
> UGH!
>
> If anyone has a web browser that will pull up that site, write them to say
> that Netscape 4.72 won't work with it, nor will IE 5.?? something.  What a
> joke!
>
> Don't these people TEST anything?  18% of my traffic is still on Netscape
> (and probably higher for Linux related sites).   Jeez!!!!!

Works mostly OK here on Mozilla 0.9.8 on Linux Mandrake 8.1.

A few oddities:

* Stories aren't all up to date.
* Story categorization is a little hit-and-miss.
* The javascript drop-down menus don't function until the page is finished 
loading.
* The javascript drop-down menus slip in behind any graphics on the page.
* The Feedback page under "Contact Us" does display, but pressing the Submit 
button doesn't do anything other than exercise my clicking finger.  Hence my 
CC'ing of technology at knightridder.com since I can't send feedback via the web 
page.

-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com

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