Has anyone else experienced this? My VShield and Viruscan detect nothing. I've just disabled my PopUpKiller, which is the only program
I have that can generate a "boom", (when it detects and kills a popup),but that hasn't worked in many months, even when activated.

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From what I've heard this is a bastardized IE5 that "simplifies" internet use much like the AOL browser.
If you don't need the "simplification" you should just get rid of it and use the unabridged IE, Netscape, or O*era (I don't want to blow up your system again so I won't spell it out).
Unfortunately it may emulate AOL and be near impossible to remove...

O*era has some great features (for example the mouse gesture control is sweet and the tabbed windows layout is addictive) and some annoying peculiarities, but once I got used to it I don't use IE unless unavoidable (Film-Tech.com was unuseable in O*era until recently). I stopped trying Netscape a long time ago, it was slow and unstable - it might be great now but I'm off it in much the same zealous way Brad loves it...
Try O*era for free, you get some ads but can decide if you like it. Registering it and thus removing the ads is pretty cheap ($US39).

And I agree the auto-refresh is annoying. Can the script be modified so it only refreshes if there is a change to the chatroom list rather than on a timer?

Since the change of the design, quite a few problems have turned up that I have seen but have not even been addressed yet. Some of the members have already reported verified problems with the new design. The idea here is obviously to keep the site accessible by as many browsers and platforms as possible, but there does come a point as to what can be done and how much time I have to spend on trying to make every person's system in the world able to navigate the site. I am by no means finished, but I can tell you that Netscape will always work if you come to the site one day and cannot navigate because I am changing things. I design in Netscape and only once finished do I bother to check other browsers for compatibility.

Technical glitch reports are very much welcome, but please do make sure to tell me what operating system you are using, what browser you are using and what kind of internet connection you have. Without that information any such report is useless, so please keep that in mind.

If anyone has further ideas for improving the site, please feel free to pass them along. However please understand that it is impossible to please everyone and make everybody's system compatible. In the end I will settle with what I feel is the best compromise.

As to the "ticking" noise from the chatroom monitor, that is an Internet Explorer issue. This only occurs once every 60 seconds. The ONLY way to remedy that is to make a correction to YOUR computer, or simply stop using that browser and opt for a better one. It is a simple procedure, but will take some time to put together a quick "how to" page. The chat room monitor will not be removed, so please do not ask. Way too many people requested this, I put way too much effort into making it work, and the chat room has seen an amazing increase in it's use since the implementation of the monitor frame. Most of the time all it takes to get a chat going is for one person to go into the chat room and wait. Usually another member will join in within a few minutes and I've seen the chats run for hours from there as people come and go. If you've never participated in the chat room, do step in, as I believe you will find many of the discussions quite interesting. Also, the chat room monitor should not be slowing down an internet connection any more than someone sending an "Instant Message" or an "ICQ message". The data sent is so minimal that unless the computer is really slow or a dialup connection is absurdy slow, it will not slow anything down. I am sending this post from a 26k AOL dialup and have only seen a split second flash of time that it takes to perform the refresh. If anyone is legitimately seeing a slow down, I need specific information about your setup like I listed above in order to troubleshoot.

The only thig I would change is to increase the spacing between the links on the left to make them more distinguishable and make the chatroom window take up only 40% of the vertical screen instead of the 60% it seems to be taking up now.

This is of course just my opinion, but I think the popup window would be the best idea. I defintely like the links on the bottom.

On Win2K:

Start
Settings
Control Panel
Sounds and Multimedia

Scroll the list down to "Windows Explorer", then highlight "Start Navigation".

In the "Name:" drop-down menu, select (None).

Click OK.

No more clicking sound.

This should also work for other versions of Windows.

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- dave
Avoid the meadow...

"Popups are evil!

I wholeheartedly agree with him and there will never be popups on the site. You mine as well drop this now because you have stated you dislike the chat room monitor. Fine. But I don't need to hear it a second time, especially right after I state that it will stay.

Now go back to the main page and read that yellow text that you never do. There you will find the solution to rid yourself of the chat monitor screen.

By the way David, thanks for the instructions. I didn't think it would be difficult, but I didn't think it would've been quite so easy.

Now what is the right mouse button for?

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