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Sorry all,

I misread EPO file inspection for EPO register.

I participated in the non-public beta's of EPO register and EPO file
inspection.
The non-public beta of the EPO register was great.
I tested the site with all browsers I had available then (netscape 4.76,
opera 5.0 en internet explorer) and all worked.
Between the non-public beta and the public beta they changed the code
and as a consequence only internet explorer worked. I asked them to turn
back to the code of the non-public beta to maintain browser independent
access but they refused to do this.

I just tested the most recent versions of the browsers I use with the
following result.

Mozilla 1.2.1 works
Phoenix 0.5 works
Opera 7.0 does not

The EPO file inspection site never worked with any browser but Internet
Explorer. I complained about this in the non-public beta, but again with
no result.

I tested the site with the same versions as above, but none of them
works.

Quite some web developers refuse to obey W3C recommendations and because
of that I'm working with several browsers nowadays.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PILCH Hartmut [mailto:phm@a2e.de] 
> Sent: February 09, 2003 16:05
> To: epo@mlist.austria.eu.net
> Cc: patents@aful.org; intprop-l@topica.com; horns@ipjur.com
> Subject: epoline file inspection not working
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At 
> 
>         http://www.epoline.org/
> 
> one can supposedly inspect the current state of an EPO patent.
> 
> Unfortunately I was, after a few attempts, not able to do this with
> any patent, and at
> 
        http://www.epoline.org/epoline/pfifaq.html

I find an FAQ which teaches me that I have to use the Microsoft
operating system platform with specific browsers that use specific
versions of the Java Virtual Machine.  I of course use none of these
but browsers like Konqueror, Opera and Lynx.

If the EPO's goal is to make information publicly accessible, why
can't you keep things simple and adhere to publicly specified
standards, such as HTML 4.0 (see www.w3c.org) ?

Meanwhile the problem about which I was complaining this morning seems
to have been fixed, but the observation remains that espacenet.com
could have been made more transparent and robust.  Since epoline.org
is still in the beta phase, perhaps some bad design decisions of
espacenet.com could be avoided rather than repeated in even worse
form.

Btw, is intprop-l at topica com still operating ?
My postings didn't seem to arrive there and I received only one
mailing from AHH this year.


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