I can't even get the URL to open (perhaps someone is now working on an upgrade...?) - Margaret. At 08:38 6/08/98 +0200, Joris Komen wrote: >Dear ICOM-L(isters), > >As one of a considered number of African museum collaborators in >the AFRICOM Handbook of Standards project, I was stunned into >complete silence (this is a rare phenomenon:-)) for some minutes >while trying to browse the newly finished Handbook of Standards >pages hosted at > >http://www.icom.org/afridoc/ > >as an ICOM internet resource. > >I was flabbergasted; with complete abandon (of ICOM page >conformity), this entry page comes up as a graphic disaster >zone...no text whatsoever, and a loooong wait for a visual rehash >of the handbook's front cover (I'm browsing from a 57k modem >connection to swipnet.se in Stockholm, so I don't have bandwidth >problems for a change:-)). Finding my way around the first >english page (99% graphics), I then land up in a horrendous frame >environment, with broken links and more slow graphics. > >These pages suck! > >What I found really disturbing is the fact that I'm listed as an >author of this Handbook!! Yesterday was the *first* time I >received news of this disasterous set of pages, and I am somewhat >more than a tad annoyed that there was absolutely zero >consultative process with the *authors* of the Handbook - is this >becoming a pervasive phenomenon at the ICOM secretariat in >Paris?? > >Hugely disappointed! > >Joris Komen > >National Museum of Namibia > >