[Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes

[Doug Braun]

I tried it with Firefox, and that didn't work, either.  It asks for a
password.

Doug

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Donald H Locker <dhlocker at comcast.net>
wrote:

> From: Donald H Locker <dhlocker at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re:
[Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes
> To: eric at megageek.com
> Cc: "Shop
Talk" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 6:51 AM
>
Sorry, Eric, but IE is not "the
> industry standard," just a common browser.
>
> HTML-4 is the standard, promulgated and controlled by the
> w3c. 
<http://www.w3.org/> and especially <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/>  IE is an
> implementation of a user interface for the sites serving
> information using
the HTML language - a user interface which
> includes many non-standard
extensions and neglects certain
> portions of the standard.  Microsoft has
made an effort
> to get some of their extensions adopted by the standards
>
body, but most of their proposed changes are very narrow in
> focus and
usually address situations already addressed by
> the standard, just not like
MS would have wanted it.
> 
> Many people using a product doesn't make it a
>
standard.  Many people use their right hand in
> preference to their left. 
Doesn't make it a standard.
> 
> Please reply off-list.  I'll summarise for
anyone
> interested.
> Donald.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
eric at megageek.com
> To: "Bill Rabel" <brabel at comcast.net>
> Cc: "Shop Talk"
<shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:04:40 AM GMT
-05:00
> US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all
mailboxes
> 
> Thanks Bill, but I can't view it.  I've never seen a
> page
where "IE" is an 
> "unsupported" browser and you can't continue without
>
firefox or Safari. IE 
> does suck, but it is by far the industry standard.
>
> Is there a way to view it without installing the additional
> browser?
> 
>
Thanks.
> 
> Moose
> Everything I know about knots, I learned from Alexander
the
> Great.
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Rabel <brabel at comcast.net>
> 
> Sent by:
shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net
> 06/29/2009 22:06
> 
> To
> Shop Talk
<shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> cc
> 
> Subject
> Re: [Shop-talk] Mailbox to end
all mailboxes
> 
> 
> 
> Here's where to see my mailbox.
> 
>
<http://www.me.com/gallery/#100010/Mailbox>
> Double-click on the oval 
>
"album" and then double click on the one photo to enlarge
> it.
> 
> > Here's
my mailbox. My neighbors formerly each had
> their own 4x4 post.
> >
> >
> >
On Jun 29, 2009, at 4:39 PM, "Steve Hammatt Mount
> Vernon WA USA" 
>
<gsteve at hammatt.com
> 
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> OK, I wasn't going to bring up my
solution.....but
> now I will<grin>
> >> The neighbor's teenage son (I'm
nearly 99% sure)
> decided to take
> >> a sideswipe to our mailbox some years
ago. 
> It was a typical
> >> rural metal box on a 4x4 post.  It was about
>
this time that Lowes
> >> had first offered those green/tan plastic boxes
>
designed to slip over
> >> a 4x4 post.
> You are subscribed as
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> 
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