Re: It's COBOL, Jim, but not as we know it...

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:31:42 +1300, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Here's what SHOULD happen:

1. You click the link in the newsgroup message.(ONLY ONCE... don't double
click it...)

2. The logon page opens, followed a few seconds later by the cobdata page
opening in the background. (You should maximize the login page if it isn't
already.)

3. You login or register. It succeeds. You click "Resume" and the standard
download dialog for the ZIP file appears.

4. You download. Close the page. The standard cobdata page remains.

(since Sunday, there have been 7 successful downloads.)

Here's what CAN happen:

1. Both the login and COBDATA main page appear simultaneously. This has to
do with browser delay and/or server workload. If it happened, it shouldn't
happen consistently. Everything will still work, but it could be confusing
to a user.

2. The login page may be minimized and all you see is the COBDATA main page.
This has to do with Browser settings or tabs if you are using a tabbed
browser.

3. The COBDATA page is obscuring the login page. Minimize the COBDATA page
and it should reveal the login page.

4. Your Firefox browser blocks the login page as a pop-up. That's what happened to me. I
told it to stop blocking pop-ups for this site.


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