Topic: Booklet on Scottish glass makers and places is on-line now

[Frank]

Scottish Glass Makers Directory, including glass sites, buildings involving glass, museums with a glass collection and glass organisations. Can now be viewed on-line. We are also distributing the booklet via various organisations, museums as well as to buyers of the book. Any galleries in or near Scotland that would like to give copies to their customers get in touch please.

You can now also read it on-line just click here LINK

[Bernard C]

Frank — Your link just freezes my system (IE 6.0) forcing a re-start.   It's done it three times.   After a long wait all I see is a patterned dark background.   I can view the site's home page at http://www.scotlandsglass.co.uk without any problem.

Bernard C.  :huh:

[Lustrousstone]

Works fine in Firefox, perhaps another reason to move to the 21st C and IE8 Bernard

[Frank]

It does appear that only certain builds of IE6 suffer this and other problems, I have been investigating for sometime now and it appears to be a bug in those builds. The only solution is to upgrade as MS no longer provide updates.

Another possible option would be to reinstall IE6 from the original disks, but then you lose security updates. I still use IE6 for testing but it struggles to cope with the latest css standards and will often display pages incorrectly. Scotland's Glass has had an upgrade to the most recent versions of the software which are using the most recent versions of SQL and PHP too. Finally breaking away from ANSI encoding to pure UTF  :thup:

You can also see the booklet via the 400th anniversary site which is built differently scotlandsglass400.co.uk But you will miss out on the 4,000 pieces of glass (12,000 images) on Scotland's Glass not to mention the additional 5,000 pieces coming soon!

[Bernard C]

Christine & Frank — Thanks — I needed a push to upgrade.

Why?   Well, I had been invited by Yahoo! to download their version of IE8, and, having just reread Fast Food Nation and McLibel (who needs horror fiction?), their kind offer gave me the gibbering abdabs.

I will download it from MS 

Bernard C. 

[David E]

Direct Download link from Scotland's Glass 400 website

Extremely dodgy from a security aspect to still be using IE6, Bernard. But why not use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc?

[Bernard C]

...   But why not use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc?

David — Because it scares me.

Am I the only person left on this planet intimidated by modern computers?

Bernard C. 

[David E]

Nope, speak to my mother! 

[Lustrousstone]

Your mother has about 20 years worth of excuse compared with Bernard. My mother (82) didn't flinch when we offered to upgrade her Mac, sorts out her own printer with only telephone help from the OH, is coping admirably with her digital camera and is a pro at TV on demand. She would love the Internet if we could persuade her that she would get something out of it, but then she probably wouldn't find the spare time for it.

[Frank]

Just got my printed booklet, it is a lovely feeling when you first hold the results of your labours.

As to a review... An excellent work, clearly a 21st Century classic, that will be as vital accessory to any glass lover as works costing a hundred times as much  :24: