Albert Grennock wrote:
Hi, Hope this is the right forum to ask in.

Anyway in IE I go to this site and I click on computing on the left hand
menu and it takes from about 6 to 15 seconds to open the submenu.
I then click on "desktop PC's" and it takes 14 seconds to open that menu.
(normally about 14 seconds for the first menu, I guess I just 'got lucky'
last time when it opened in a *mere* 6 seconds.

However I then had the bright idea of trying a different browser, Mozilla
Firefox and I got much better results. It took only about 2-3 seconds to
open
each menu, not lightening fast I admit but atleast useable unlike the
unbearable
slow Internet Explorer operation.

Most likely the site has a slow server and the browsers are using cached
data differently.


Actually futher investigation reveals it may not just java script or the
bits
which I think are javascript which runs slow (I onlly though it was
javescript
because it said 'javascript void()' or similar in the bottom barof the
browser
which indicates what it is doing so that maybe a red herring, it now seems
IE may just be slower at eveything.

It indicates only that whoever coded the page is clueless. It doesn't
work at all if JavaScript is disabled.

[...]


So its a pretty simple problem really ;O) no doubt you wise owls can sort it
out ;;O)

No, the problems are many and varied - attempting to validate the HTML
generates hundreds of errors. Many are trivial, but some aren't:

'Line 1794 column 95: element "SPACER" undefined"
...=122 class=wh-level1BottomGapspacer/td/tr'


Send them an e-mail describing how crap you found the site and that you
were going to purchase 100 PCs from them - but since their site shows
them to be technical idiots you'll now go elsewhere.


--
Rob