On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:56 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When using firefox since fc6 (I skipped fc5) I've noticed that many
> images, suchas .swf, now display as a large pair of vertical bars,
> somewhat simalar to the insignia worn by U.S. Army captains, that may
> appear alone or on top of some other background.
>
> On really lousy sites where it's flash or nothing or where most of the
> adverts are flash this is (IMO) just plain ugly and really annoying.
> It's as if someone is threating "Use flash or else we'll destroy your
> user experience". If that's the case how about a little CSS ala "body
> {display: none;}" and we wouldn't have to waste our time on sites like
> that. <-- me being facetious ;) Whatever happened to "failing
> gracefully", the mantra of web designers?
>
> Does anybody know where these abuses have come from? Are they from the
> Mozilla project or is this something peculiar to fedora's spin of
> firefox or perhaps something peculiar to fedora itself?
What kind of video setup do you have? Ric
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