As a recent switcher and a satisifed customer, I have no axe to grind with Apple. However, at work I use a pc and I browse with IE6, and with IE6 the Apple site is an absolute mess - completely illegible. It is simply astonishing that Apple should allow this to continue while at the same time attempting to convert pc'ers to the mac. How can they possible be converted if they can't read the site? It's a joke!
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Apple - get your act together!
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I would check the encoding on your web browser. Sounds like maybe you have it set to the wrong encoding option.... It's under View > Encoding.
Alia
Alia
Re: Re: Apple - get your act together!
Flaming someone for flaming someone else is a little... silly.
Apple.com looks fine on my PC at work with IE 6 by the way.
Tolerance.
Flaming someone for flaming someone else is a little... silly.
Apple.com looks fine on my PC at work with IE 6 by the way.
firewall???
I have old PC's at both work and at home, and the apple site looks fine on both computers using IE 6...
However I used to have an old firewall installed on my PC at home (atguard) and when I would try to view the apple site, it wouldn't fully load and look jumbled. As soon as I disabled the firewall it looked fine...
I have old PC's at both work and at home, and the apple site looks fine on both computers using IE 6...
However I used to have an old firewall installed on my PC at home (atguard) and when I would try to view the apple site, it wouldn't fully load and look jumbled. As soon as I disabled the firewall it looked fine...
eww!
Looks like a problem there - FWIW I've never had a problem viewing apple.com in MSIE 6 on WinXP. so all other sites render ok? Maybe your ISP's connection to apple is dodgy - looks like it's unable to download the images (nothing wrong with the rendering there). Who knows..
Looks like a problem there - FWIW I've never had a problem viewing apple.com in MSIE 6 on WinXP. so all other sites render ok? Maybe your ISP's connection to apple is dodgy - looks like it's unable to download the images (nothing wrong with the rendering there). Who knows..
well we can all access it from our pc's so doesnt that tell you something, and since your on windows no telling whats wrong. hope you get it fixed, im sure you checked your settings but maybe you should check again, did you try another browswer, go try mozilla or phoenix.
iJon
iJon
Re: firewall???
Anyhow, Apple.com looks fine in IE6 for me.
djtet...what a small world. I live in Charleston too (Mt. P). Just saw your location...cool man.
Anyhow, Apple.com looks fine in IE6 for me.
Re: Bloody Hell!
All of Apple's images are hosted on the akamai.net domain it looks like, as are all of their Quicktime streams. My guess is that your PC is set to not accept any images from akamai.net. Sometimes programs like Kazaa will block some sites like this, or maybe akamai.net is the home to various advertisements and another program decided to block it. Or maybe it's on the level of your company firewall. Who knows.
Good luck. I would assume that, somewhere in your company, either at the level of your PC or your company's firewall, akamai.net is blocked.
[edit] In fact, I am almost positive this is your problem. akamai.net is frequently a server used for advertisers and so somewhere, possibly at the level of your computer especially if you've installed software like Kazaa, you are blocking any incoming connections from akamai.net. For an example of akamai.net hosting ads, go to http://www.snopes.com ... click on "What's New?" at the top and click on any of the stories from within there, or even on the side of that page itself. You should have a broken image from your work computer that won't let you view Apple's pages properly, because akamai.net hosts ads on this page. The pages will load fine; just somewhere on the page there will be a broken image where akamai.net would otherwise have had an ad presented on your screen.
All of Apple's images are hosted on the akamai.net domain it looks like, as are all of their Quicktime streams. My guess is that your PC is set to not accept any images from akamai.net. Sometimes programs like Kazaa will block some sites like this, or maybe akamai.net is the home to various advertisements and another program decided to block it. Or maybe it's on the level of your company firewall. Who knows.
Good luck. I would assume that, somewhere in your company, either at the level of your PC or your company's firewall, akamai.net is blocked.
[edit] In fact, I am almost positive this is your problem. akamai.net is frequently a server used for advertisers and so somewhere, possibly at the level of your computer especially if you've installed software like Kazaa, you are blocking any incoming connections from akamai.net. For an example of akamai.net hosting ads, go to http://www.snopes.com ... click on "What's New?" at the top and click on any of the stories from within there, or even on the side of that page itself. You should have a broken image from your work computer that won't let you view Apple's pages properly, because akamai.net hosts ads on this page. The pages will load fine; just somewhere on the page there will be a broken image where akamai.net would otherwise have had an ad presented on your screen.
A similar event happened rather often at Pascack Hills, the H.S. I (still) go to. Sometimes Apple's tabs would load, and other times they wouldn't. Also, anytime I did a search with the term
powerbook
in it, via Altavista or Dealtime, the search never succeed.
Some conspiracy that was. Now the PC-zealot techie (bakes pies to throw at her for pre-Easter) has modified the privilages so more access is allowed. Now I can get to rated "R" sites, whereas a few years ago you couldn't even use the word "sex" in a search engine, even for something 100% educational.
That reminds me. I have to go to Pascack Hills tomorrow.
powerbook
in it, via Altavista or Dealtime, the search never succeed.
Some conspiracy that was. Now the PC-zealot techie (bakes pies to throw at her for pre-Easter) has modified the privilages so more access is allowed. Now I can get to rated "R" sites, whereas a few years ago you couldn't even use the word "sex" in a search engine, even for something 100% educational.
That reminds me. I have to go to Pascack Hills tomorrow.
Apologies to all...!
The problem was in my hosts file. Thanks to bwawn for pointing the way. I'm happy to be viewing Apple again. Now - who said I wouldn't be posting again?
The problem was in my hosts file. Thanks to bwawn for pointing the way. I'm happy to be viewing Apple again. Now - who said I wouldn't be posting again?