Monday, 5 February 2018

Re: online telephone directory

In article <8471a5c556.jim@6.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel
<netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
> Sigh. BT has yet again redesigned the front-end of its online
> phonebook: http://thephonebook.bt.com Do F8 in Netsurf and admire the
> pretty layout of the code.

All those nested divs instead of giving several styles to one div.
[insert 'face with rolling eyes' emoji]

> Until a week or two ago (last time I needed it) the BT Phonebook
> worked fine in Netsurf. The new design is in the
> big-boxes-on-mostly-blank-page style that seems the current fashion
> (e.g. the gov.uk pages).

I think it's the mistaken belief that it is the only way to make your
website also compatible with an iPhone 4 which is only 320 pixels wide.
Hence the current crop of websites which you can read from across the
room on a monitor.

> Does anybody know a current phonebook site that DOES work with Netsurf?

192.com works with business numbers but may require £ for private ones.

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Tim Hill

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