Jake wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:31:13 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:


Following Sacha's lead, I decided to get some things from Parker's
this year. I found, though, that the online order form worked
perfectly until I tried to use the drop-downs for "How did you hear
about us?" and the years (not the months) of issue and expiry of my
debit card. My system treated these as unwanted pop-ups, even though
I put the firm in my "allowed" list. I'm pretty sure this is a
Windows (spit, children!) problem, but just to confirm, has anybody
else had the same difficulty?

If you're using Internet Explorer 7, try turning "protected mode" off.
If you're using IE8, you may need to downgrade to IE7 - IE8 has an
annoying habit of blocking any spawned windows whatever you do unless
the site you're visiting has been programmed for it. It's so called
"compatability mode" doesn't seem to help. It's what Microsoft call
"security".

Thanks: that makes sense. M$ specialises in products that aren't quite
compatible with one another ("Send error report", forsooth!). It's all
part of the system to make people buy the next model. I understand this
is called a "competitive free market".

Interestingly, if one's interested in that kind of thing, I found that I
could ignore the failure of the drop-downs and simply enter the required
data with the keyboard, and produce a viable order.

--
Mike.