Re: Workshops Review #07

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:26:19 +0000, Stephen Mulraney
<ataltane.conlang@...> wrote:
>
> > The invite showed up in my inbox; Thanks! Unfortunately, the
> > registration form doesn't work on my computer (the buttons are blanked
> > out)! So much for "any old browser"! I may be able to try it again
> > elsewhere, but I don't know how soon ....
>
> I just signed up to Gmail a few days ago, and after signing in for the
> first time, all I got was a blank page - maybe something like your
> problem? I solved my problem by  changing my firewall settings to allow
> various things from gmail.google.com .
> The firewall I use is Kerio, and the "various things" had the titles
> foreign cookies, persistent cookies, session cookies, referer, popups,
> privacy, javascript. I played around enough to determine the VBscript and
> activeX (obviously enough) weren't needed, but I didn't try very hard to
> narrow down the permissions any further.
> There's almost certainly a more elegant solution, but I'm not that
> bothered to pursue it. I should add, that a flush of my browser's cache
> and cookie jar was needed after each setting change. What browser &
> system are you using, BTW?
I'll look forward to a possible blank page, but probably will get something
else! I'll have to remember the flush. I'm using MSIE 4.x for Windows 95 --
no firewall, I think. They did mention javascript (which can't be disabled
anyway) and cookies which are enabled. My problem may be because of the
javascript errors.

Jeff

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> s.
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> PS. This is my first post to CONLANG from a gmail account, so, fingers
> crossed. I've set up a separate Gmail account just for CONLANG, which
> enabled me to set the Reply-To especially.