oh so that's what it does

[spatch]

On the occasion of the third anniversary of the death of Douglas Adams (Tuesday, in case you had forgotten) the cast and crew of the Hitchhiker's movie got together and took a picture. At least, that's what I was told they did. I visited the film's official site and was greeted with a Flash gateway page. It's the Earth with a big red button underneath. It said "Please don't push this button." I pushed it. Then it said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!" So I pushed it again.

And a big-ass Netflix pop-up then took over my monitor.

Well! Consider me well and duly warned.

Comments

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

I love never getting popups.

[spatch]

Moooooom! Kestrels is ruing all my fun!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

After you click the first time, the brightest star above the Earth (to the right a bit... possibly bettleguise?) becomes a link to The Official Movie Blog (http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/blog.htm). Very tricky of them!

[yuda.livejournal.com]

That'll teach you to use IE instead of, say, a modern (http://mozilla.org/) browser (http://www.opera.com/).

[annilita.livejournal.com]

That's odd. I just got a big DON'T PANIC and a link to the same page that the star in the upper right linked to. No pop up.

[spatch]

Sure, I'll just go and start installing programs on an office PC that's not only not mine, but one I only used for two days. They love it when temps do that.

[tyopsqueene.livejournal.com]

Same here, and i'm on IE with no pop-up suppressors. (Becuase - work PC and hterefore not allowed to download own programmes from the intranetweb due to them all being pIRATEd or HAKCED or Trojan Worm things, according to the IT guy).

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Not really, but I am ruining it.

(See?)

[ungratefulninja.livejournal.com]

Hey dooder slashdot is ---->

[yuda.livejournal.com]

Who said anything about slashdot? I'm just talking about using a web browser that actually, like, works.

[spatch]

Ok, I'll bite.

A browser that executes code written for it to pop up a window is, in fact, working. Doing exactly what the code tells it to do.

Or perhaps you were suggesting, with a hefty little dose of rhetoric, that people find browsers which can be customized to ignore certain bits of code, like pop-ups and pop-unders and the like?