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From: dorayme on 12 Nov 2009 01:12
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DaveC <invalid(a)invalid.net> wrote:

> <http://www.crazedlist.org>
>
> Using Firefox, I enter some search terms, and from the drop-down menus I
> select "Sales/Wanted" and "Electronics". Then, rather than selecting
> particular cities, I choose the region "West Coast".
>
> When I click the Search button, I get the error "You must choose at least one
> city to search!" I thought that selecting a region superseded choosing
> cities.
>
> I think it's a bug.

Can't reproduce this in my FF 3.5.5 on Tiger. What I get is a notice to
disable referrers. For the reason given, namely that the sites that will
be searched will otherwise block these searches. Remember that anything
that stops people from going directly to a site also can stop them from
seeing ads and things that are the means these sites survive or do
business. This notice, of course, is not a bug.

However, it was particularly easy for me to use the site because I have
the web developer extension and it is a simple menu item to disable the
referrers. There are other means you can do this too, as described in
the notice that maybe you are not seeing?

Even where no ads are concerned, some people object to their website
pages being incorporated into other pages controlled by others with, for
example, an HTML technology called Frames. For various reasons they
object and fairly enough. In this case they have simple ways to block
this happening (by forcing the target to a new window mainly). I mention
this as a well known procedure that is nevertheless not a bug.

Having said all this, you nevertheless may be experiencing a bug. But
since I am not reproducing it, I cannot tell? I doubt if it would be
worth tracking on this site anyway because the whole site is
choc-o-block with simple mistakes and poor practices. The man who made
it sounds like fun, but he is a bit slack when it comes down to good
practice. It is obviously not on topic to go into this here.

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dorayme
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