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Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website
Date	2014-01-26 14:07 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnlea5lk.4tm.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
References	<2014012517255663419-nothingtoseehere@movealongnet> <vilain-0AC80C.18102325012014@news.individual.net>

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In message <vilain-0AC80C.18102325012014@news.individual.net> 
  Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <2014012517255663419-nothingtoseehere@movealongnet>,
>  Skylamar <nothingtoseehere@movealong.net> wrote:

>> Hi. I'm a subscriber to the digital version of the NY Times. I mostly 
>> read it using Safari on my IMac. I am running Mavericks and the latest 
>> version of Safari.
>> 
>> Anyway, I don't know if there are other NY Times readers in this group, 
>> but I thought I'd post my problem anyway.
>> 
>> This is what's happening:
>> 
>> Apparently there is a large, Flash ad on the NY Times main page. For 
>> some reason, the ad is not showing up when I view the page in Safari. 
>> It is showing up when I view the page in Chrome. I'm not sure why it's 
>> different Safari. I do have the Ad Blocker extension installed in 
>> Safari but I also have it turned off.
>> 
>> Anyway, when I try to click on some of the headlines on the NY Times 
>> page, the page thinks I'm clicking on the invisible Flash ad. If I 
>> right-click on some of the headlines, I get the Flash contextual menu.
>> 
>> So, I can't access many of the articles on the page. Does anyone know 
>> what is going on?
>> 
>> I will send a message to the NY Times, but the part of their website 
>> for sending feedback is currently down.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Sky

> When you see browser-dependent differences, it's usually because 

> (a) you have a plugin or exception on a browser that changes the 
> behavior for that browser

> (b) RARELY, a site won't do multiple platform and browser regression on 
> their site and it will render or appear different because of actual 
> browser bugs or implementations.

I this case, it is a difference in the browsers.

Chrome shows flash by default, and has its own Flash engine installed in
the app bundle.

Safari, depending on version, does NOT show flash by default and the
system may not even have Flash installed.

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Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website Skylamar <nothingtoseehere@movealong.net> - 2014-01-25 17:25 -0800
  Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-25 20:30 -0500
    Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website Skylamar <nothingtoseehere@movealong.net> - 2014-01-25 19:20 -0800
  Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-25 18:10 -0800
    Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website Skylamar <nothingtoseehere@movealong.net> - 2014-01-25 19:19 -0800
      Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website Skylamar <nothingtoseehere@movealong.net> - 2014-01-25 19:29 -0800
    Re: Safari, Flash and the NY Times Website Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-26 14:07 +0000

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