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[Don Erickson]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Brian Densmore wrote:

> Works ok on my computer here at work.
> It works in my browser too (firefox 1.0 - W2K). ;')
> I can even read the pages in lynx, but
> my lynx doesn't have ssl support so
> I couldn't buy from there.

Right, but do you want to send your credit card number unencrypted?  It
would certainly not be difficult to support unencrypted transactions, but
this was a conscious decision.

> There is a bit of
> alignment problem with the underline bar that
> should go under the column header rather than through it.

Yes, and it is under the column header in the PDF.  This is only a problem
on certain pages at certain resolutions, but I need to fix this. Perfect
it isn't.

> Other than that it looked ok. Not sure I'd want to go
> through this catalog on a dial up connection.

Well, that's one of my major "features" of this conversion process.
Total bandwidth per page is ~50-95Kbytes.  Try it with dial-up - it's
pretty damned quick, comparatively speaking.  These are the ips of
orders through level3 (netzero, juno) this month -

 This order originated from dialup-4.131.146.155.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net, 4.131.146.155, Orderid WEB200527.
 This order originated from dialup-4.232.51.254.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net, 4.232.51.254, Orderid WEB200541.
 This order originated from dialup-4.152.18.129.dial1.atlanta1.level3.net, 4.152.18.129, Orderid WEB200583.
 This order originated from dialup-4.156.102.246.dial1.boston1.level3.net, 4.156.102.246, Orderid WEB2005136.
 This order originated from dialup-4.164.255.191.dial1.denver1.level3.net, 4.164.255.191, Orderid WEB2005157.
 This order originated from dialup-4.249.225.156.dial1.washington2.level3.net, 4.249.225.156, Orderid WEB2005159.
 This order originated from dialup-4.242.138.220.dial1.seattle1.level3.net, 4.242.138.220, Orderid WEB2005270.
 This order originated from dialup-4.130.150.99.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net, 4.130.150.99, Orderid WEB2005314.
 This order originated from dialup-4.142.135.93.dial1.chicago1.level3.net, 4.142.135.93, Orderid WEB2005324.
 This order originated from dialup-4.229.87.213.dial1.detroit1.level3.net, 4.229.87.213, Orderid WEB2005374.
 This order originated from dialup-4.229.102.156.dial1.detroit1.level3.net, 4.229.102.156, Orderid WEB2005375.
 This order originated from dialup-4.242.138.213.dial1.seattle1.level3.net, 4.242.138.213, Orderid WEB2005379.
 This order originated from dialup-4.139.81.202.dial1.baltimore1.level3.net, 4.139.81.202, Orderid WEB2005416.
 This order originated from dialup-4.152.246.123.dial1.atlanta1.level3.net, 4.152.246.123, Orderid WEB2005452.
 This order originated from dialup-4.168.207.68.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net, 4.168.207.68, Orderid WEB2005459.

If anybody knows of a slower dialup connection than level3.net, I'll
search on that one.


Regards,

-Don