The animations are either animated GIF's or AVI's, and made by me. The GIF's should work in those browsers. I'm browsing right now with NS 7.1, but I also have NS8, IE6, and Firefox 1.5 on another machine with no extra plugins and they work fine there. The AVI should open in Windows Media Player. From IE6, it did so automatically. The other browsers ask what to do. All the animations are hosted on my site. No external links.

Since you've explained that your laptop is the company computer, I can totally understand why you are reluctant to go browsing to unknown sites. I understand that. Perhaps you should have explained that up front? Something like "I'd take a look at your website, but my computer is my company computer and I have to be careful about visiting unknown sites." Also, this could explain why the animations don't work for you. You're IT guys may have disable those features for security purposes, which is understandable.

Why I got bent is that you came across like you own the place. You chided me for discussing my work here when it's not been presented here because you are unable or unwilling to visit my website. I can understand if you have no interest in what I am doing or in my website, but why make such a point of posting a message saying you are not interested? That, to me, is pointless, and smacks of attitude. I felt as if you were telling me to bug off because you don't know me and don't want to take the time to know me.

I don't know if you're experienced at usenet or not, but there are many groups I read daily, and a few of them I do not have the time to read all the messages, or there are topics that I have no interest in. I simply skip them. I don't post a message telling people not to talk about it because I'm not interested and/or don't have time to read them. It would be considered rude.

Now, please, take my comments as constructive criticisms. It's obvious we got off on the wrong foot here, but there's no reason we can't get over this and work to some mutual understanding. I think this all boils down to poor communication on both sides. I'm willing to try to do better.

Brian