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Any idea when we can expect the '07 catalog?

pcrobotpcrobot Posts: 103
edited 2007-01-31 17:20 in General Discussion
My friend and I always like to get copies of your latest catalogs, and we were wondering when the '07 catalog would be available.

Thanks!

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2007-01-30 00:19
    Hello,

    If you fill out the catalog request form on our website they should be going out in about two weeks. I hope this helps. Take care.

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    Chris Savage
    Parallax Tech Support
  • Steph LindsaySteph Lindsay Posts: 767
    edited 2007-01-30 00:28
    ...and if you want to sneak a peek, you can download the .pdf from our website (but it is 22 MB):

    http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/downloads/catalogs/catalogs.asp

    -Stephanie Lindsay

    Editor, Parallax Inc.
  • pcrobotpcrobot Posts: 103
    edited 2007-01-30 23:43
    OK, thanks.

    I requested mine a few minutes ago. cool.gif

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2007-01-30 23:48
    Stephanie,
    The download link doesn't appear to work. If I click on the folder icon, nothing happens.
    Mike
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2007-01-30 23:55
    Mike,

    Try again, or better yet, if you’re using IE right-click on the folder icon and select, “Save Target As…” Let me know if that works. Take care.

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    Parallax Tech Support
  • John R.John R. Posts: 1,376
    edited 2007-01-31 00:46
    I've got Firefox and IE both, and the "right click" => "Save Link/Target As" worked fine.

    Mike the file is a rather large PDF, and if you try to just "click" the thing will attempt to load into the browser. Depending on your connection speed, version of Adobe Reader, etc., this could take a while, or outright fail.

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    John R.

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2007-01-31 01:24
    John,
    I use Apple's Safari and none of the links on the page seem to be active. Right clicks on the folder icons don't do anything. Normally this sort of thing works fine with Safari and other downloads on Parallax's website seem to work fine. I'll experiment with Firefox.
    Mike

    An update: Firefox worked fine. Clearly there is something about that webpage that is incompatible with Safari and needs to be fixed.

    Post Edited (Mike Green) : 1/31/2007 1:37:53 AM GMT
  • John R.John R. Posts: 1,376
    edited 2007-01-31 03:02
    The web page or Safari? devil.gif

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2007-01-31 05:30
    John,
    That's a complex question. A lot of web page construction tools use features that are particular to IE and possibly "non standard" whatever that may be. Microsoft is well known to add features to IE and encourage 3rd party web page building tools to include them even though other browsers will choke on them. Other vendors like Apple have been known to do this too, but generally (because they have smaller market share) do not. When Netscape was selling its browser, this was common both ways.

    This most likely is either an outright error in the webpage or the use of a feature that works in Firefox and IE, but hasn't made it to Safari. From the standpoint of a company selling its goods over the internet, it doesn't matter. The webpage has to work properly in all common browsers or the company may lose customers that can't use the company's website. It's not useful to say "We don't support Apple's Safari" or "You'll have to wait until Apple fixes their browser so it's compatible with what we do". There are a lot of educational users out there with Apple computers who will slowly begin to look for someone else as a vendor that supports their computer's standard browser.
    Mike
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2007-01-31 06:15
    I tried the "links" on that page with Opera/WinXP and none appears to be active. Nothing happens while hovering over the icon or clicking with either mouse button. I don't have that problem on the other download pages.

    -Phil
  • Jen J.Jen J. Posts: 649
    edited 2007-01-31 17:20
    The downloads now work in Safari and Opera browsers.
    Sorry for the trouble.

    Sincerely, JJ
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