Call for Members: Monadnock Area MINI Owners (MAMA)

[bakerjc]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc, one of the nicest people in the universe

And John: I've been noticing your postings have gotten quite a bit better lately. I think I know why....I found a pic of you and your computer tutors. I've got it on another computer though, I'll need to post it a little later.

Well, here you go. Does kinda look like John, huh?

[Actual Size]

I'm tempted to make that the first entry in the MAMA Gallery

[GBMINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc

Speaking of Peabody, they've been getting in truckloads of 2004 MINIs. The parking lot looks like the aftermath of a 50 car pile up when the dense fog clears. All the colors, all the combinations.

Check out the pics from my visit yesterday ...
Ians weblog

They are really pushing them out - I think they will clear >100 this month! I have not been advertising MAMA too much there ... do you want to be overwhelmed?
But Hrach is keen to come on the drive, if he can get the day off ...

[Actual Size]

...and the first member of the MAMA Gallery is .... ICE !!!

[bakerjc]

Quote: Originally Posted by Actual Size

...and the first member of the MAMA Gallery is .... ICE !!!

Hmmmmm.......works in IE, but it seems to boggle Safari a little. This is what I get when going for the big picture.......

[ice]

Hey cool. That photo was in the Stamford times with an article about The Italian Job.

[Actual Size]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc

Hmmmmm.......works in IE, but it seems to boggle Safari a little. This is what I get when going for the big picture.......

Ah...Apple Products...see here (mac) or here (windows) to see some of the reasons to love 'em.

[jcsinnh]

and after 5 minutes, I've buffered 5%. I get suckered into these tricks of his ALL the time.

[Cape Cod MINI]

That big baboon looks so much like John! The hair is a dead ringer. Seperated at birth?
The computer is too modern though. Should have been an old Tandy and hooked up to a two peice crank telephone.

[bakerjc]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cape Cod MINI

That big baboon looks so much like John! The hair is a dead ringer. Seperated at birth?

My understanding is that he uses a comb.

[bakerjc]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cape Cod MINI

That big baboon looks so much like John!

What a terrible thing to say about the big baboon......

[snid]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc

Hmmmmm.......works in IE, but it seems to boggle Safari a little.

Actual Size,

If you are Safari challenged (unable to test with Safari), here's what I've found in a few minutes of research on why the gallery doesn't work with it.

The JavaScript function JustSoPicWindow seems to do what it is supposed to... If you look really closely on Safari, the full size image appears for a split second, then the page becomes all white. The newWindow.document.write() statements get through, but then the page ends up having only the source of vwd_justso.htm, which is a blank page. If vwd_justso.htm doesn't exist, everything works great. There seems to be some sort of a race condition, or just plain timing problem, between the document.write()s and loading the page referenced in the window.open()

The comment in vwd_justso.htm says:
"It is needed to support AOL browsers, which do not permit javascript window.open calls to create new files."

I'd sacrafice AOL usability to gain Safari usability

If you want me to work on it further, let me know... I won't even charge you for my services Well, not much

[snid]

I believe it might be as easy to fix as replacing the line:

newWindow = window.open("vwd_justso.htm","newWindow","width="+ scrWidth+",height="+scrHeight+",left="+posLeft+",t op="+posTop);

with the following lines:
if(agt.indexOf("aol") != -1){
newWindow = window.open("vwd_justso.htm","newWindow","width="+ scrWidth+",height="+scrHeight+",left="+posLeft+",t op="+posTop);
}
else{
newWindow = window.open("","newWindow","width="+scrWidth+",hei ght="+scrHeight+",left="+posLeft+",top="+posTop);
}
But, I don't have an AOL browser to see if it breaks that. but my "fix" works with Safari, IE, and Mozilla on Mac OS X

[Actual Size]

Just checked with the author of the javascript and he indicated that there is a bug in Safari which prevents it from working correctly. He's currently working on a fix. In the meantime I'll try your suggestion.

Let me know if it works...if not I'll go another route for displaying larger images.

[snid]

Quote: Originally Posted by Actual Size

Just checked with the author of the javascript and he indicated that there is a bug in Safari which prevents it from working correctly. He's currently working on a fix. In the meantime I'll try your suggestion.

Let me know if it works...if not I'll go another route for displaying larger images.

It works for me. But, I guess that goes without saying since it's my tweak to the code. And as to the "there is a bug in Safari"... from my quick research, it's not a Safari bug but an improper assumption on the side of the person who wrote the code. If I were really rewriting it, I'd have the html file in the newly opened window call a JavaScript function living in the main page as its (the new window's) onload even handler (using window.opener to get a reference back to the main page) and probably some variables in the main page to hold the info for the image being shown. But, I'm not rewriting it.