# Mac users Homepage.... Why can't I.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 17, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466 "2003-12-17T04:05:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mott_the_Hoople)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/1 "2003-12-17T04:05:28Z")
I Just purchased a CD with this notation at the bottom of the Liner notes… ``` FOR MORE INFORMTION ABOUT ARTHUR: www.homepage.mac.com/?????????? ``` I get to the guys page,draft a letter,completely well thought-out, hit send, I get this in Red, “Your Letter is too Long” I edit it 3 times,same message…out of frustration, I type one consanant,hit send…Alas, the same Red too long stuff… I have Windows 98, why cant I talk to Mac? ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/2 "2003-12-17T04:35:30Z")
Your OS has got nothing to do with it. I’ve searched a bit, but until you feel up to filling in the ??? bit of that URL, nobody’s gonna be able to help you. ---
**Author:** ![Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mott_the_Hoople)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/3 "2003-12-17T04:40:09Z")
Nanoda… Here it is… ``` FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NOEL: www.homepage.mac/noelharrison ``` I respect his privacy… I don’t want him to get 300 bogus messages ---
**Author:** ![Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mott_the_Hoople)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/4 "2003-12-17T04:41:56Z")
correction… ``` www.homepage.mac.com/noelharrison ``` ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/5 "2003-12-17T07:05:35Z")
If I’m reading the HTML source correctly (and that’s entirely possible), the textarea for your reply (Type your message about this site:) is limited to 220 characters. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/6 "2003-12-17T07:21:34Z")
That whole domain seems pretty slow to me… also the guy’s images are all busted, but that seems unrelated. The textarea restriction will, in well-behaved browsers, prevent you from typing more than that, but that’s all. The error code isn’t generated via JScript or anything, and is being returned by Apple’s server itself. That form doesn’t work for me in either Mozilla, IE or lynx - the form parser is definately borked. I’ve sent some feedback via their main [feedback](http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac.html) form - you can do the same if you want. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/7 "2003-12-17T09:13:39Z")
I’ve got some stuff hosted on the [mac.com](http://mac.com) domain, and it’s very zippy – there’s something seriously borked up about that guy’s page, is all. I blame amateur HTML coding. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/8 "2003-12-17T10:43:50Z")
I’m not familiar with the directory structure of Macs, but it did seem to me he’d done the Mac equivalent of using “W:\My Documents\images” for the img src. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/9 "2003-12-17T22:11:17Z")
src="/i/hpti/1/wimg/ModernMenu2/mpmd\_spc\_headbotctr.gif", etc. That’s regular Unix directory structure, nothing odd about it. Should equate to [http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison/CDs/i/hpti/1/wimg/ModernMenu2/mpmd\_spc\_headbotctr.gif](http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison/CDs/i/hpti/1/wimg/ModernMenu2/mpmd_spc_headbotctr.gif) (note that there’s a redirect of the URL “[http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison](http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison)” to “[http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison/CDs/Menu4.html](http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison/CDs/Menu4.html)”, so the subURLs would be interpreted relative to that directory) I’m on a Mac and I didn’t ever get his pix to load either, though; and the above URL direct to the headbotctr.gif file is DOA. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-homepage-why-cant-i/219466/10 "2003-12-17T22:16:14Z")
Fooey. One time when I should have turned out auto-parse URLs, I guess. [http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison/CDs/i/hpti/1/wimg/ModernMenu2/mpmd\_spc\_headbotctr.gif](http://homepage.mac.com/noelharrison/CDs/i/hpti/1/wimg/ModernMenu2/mpmd_spc_headbotctr.gif)