Saturday, 12 June 2004 - 9:10 AM EDT

There is a bug, a nasty bug, in the sidebar that affects a number of uncommon browsers. (Oddly enough, the browsers affected are those written using Microsoft's Internet Explorer development kit BUT Internet Explorer itself is not affected.) Angelfire has fixed the problem in a number of cases and continues to add browsers to the exclusion list when we can, but some particularly broken browsers even lie and say they are "normal" IE6 even when they are not.

The Angelfire team is working over solutions to this problem because we want to ensure that even niche browsers can hit our pages, but the solution may take a bit of time to get decided on, built, and tested.

I hope this helps.

JP

Saturday, 12 June 2004 - 1:03 PM EDT

it would help even more if Angelfire removed the sidebar completely. no one likes it, it's annoying, and it steals traffic away from sites that people have spent years building up. not to mention the fact that is doesn't work: apart from the fact that it blocks entire pages, the links that come up are totally unrelated to the website content. how is this helpful? my own website traffic is down 30 percent since this thing started. I work hard on my site, and I don't appreciate having my visitors lured away or blocked from my site. I have yet to hear an explanation of how this sidebar is a "good thing." it's not good for members, so it must be good for Angelfire. but how? how can they be getting money from a site that has 30 percent less viewers than it did BEFORE they put the sidebar on?