Big hooray! Some months ago I saved a particularly messy DING! page with the intention of converting it to a lovely DHTML version. I was going to put it on display as an example of how much better those DING! pages could be. There was a "minor" obstacle, however. I, um, didn't have a clue as to how to actually write DHTML.

I haven't searched today's DING! offers thoroughly enough to determine whether the offers are now much less restrictive, or whether the initially displayed page has simply returned to a more user-friendly format.

oopsz, for my subscribed airports there has been a plethora of recent DING! offers at above-minimum fares. That used to be rare but in recent weeks it almost became the norm. I've always felt that the MPD nature of DING! was indicative of it being used by WN in a highly experimental manner. That makes sense, IMO, given how unique* and innovative it is. *Apologies for the grammar faux pas.

DING! has continued to jump back and forth between the two different styles. I mentioned on another thread that I had done some work on a utility to consolidate the "several page, single-flight mumbo jumbo" detail to make the DING! more readable. It isn't currently in a form that can be distributed, so in the meantime here is a partial fix you can apply yourself. Add a single new line of text to your user styles file as follows:The above will suppress all detail text when the DING! offers are displayed. (If it's one of those days when there are twenty offers for a single pair of cities, you will still see all twenty headlines; that's not so easy to fix.) When you click on any "Book This Offer" button you will see the detail for that specific offer. You will not see the details for any other current offer for the same city pair. As usual with DING!, however, you can just put in the dates you want to fly and click "Book Now." It doesn't matter whether you clicked a button that matches your preferred dates as long as you clicked a button for the correct city pairs. (And there is a workaround for checking other city pairs, even if they are not in your registered list of airports.)

If you don't know how and where to supply your browser with user styles:

• For Firefox visit this help page. (Important: you must fully exit FF and start a new session to cause the new userContent.css to be read.)
• For IE7 locate the [Internet Options | General | Appearance | Accessibility] dialog box, turn on user styles and supply the file location & name.
• For older versions of IE you are on your own. (IMO they all should be avoided, so I won't take the time to see whether the instructions above need to be modified.)

Dirty DING! reappeared today. Twenty-six listings for DAL-HOU. Oddly enough, zero listings for HOU-DAL.

I uploaded a pair of screen captures that show the difference in DING! appearance if you make the easy styles modification described in #12 above. (Note: you don't get the Show Details/Hide Details button with just the styles modification, but (as previously described) detail is displayed when you click the Book This Offer button). The styles change makes it easier to scan the headlines, but it doesn't condense the 26 DAL-HOU offers into one. I need to upload a DHTML dirty DING! demo to show what that would look like.