Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 ->> After you choose your area?  Are you referring to the mirror 
 ->> selection thingy?

 TW>>  When www.maxtor.com first comes up you see an outline of the
 TW>> world.

 RJT> I *never* saw that.

 TW>> I just clicked on the Western Hemisphere and as I recall there 
 TW>> was a link to Downloads on the next screen on the Left Side.

 RJT> I saw nothing like that.  There were two things up on the top of 
 RJT> the page,  one a drop-down list asking to choose a mirror (I was 
 RJT> apparently already logged into the right one?) and the other 
 RJT> asking you to choose a model number.  Plus assorted stuff down 
 RJT> the side...

 MMC> I just took a peek, and first screen was "text and news releases"
 MMC> in a graphic version which NEVER finished loading.  I had to click
 MMC> on "Location", picked North America, _then_ got a world map with
 MMC> North America already highlighted, but still had to click on the
 MMC> "North America" graphic to go further.  I quit there.

Nice to know I'm not the only one who's hitting sites that _never_ finish loading...

I wonder what they're doing to make pages act like that?

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