epoline file inspection not working

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

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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