Play.com have fucked up again (needs Opera)
I made this!
A few weeks back Play.com fucked up their coding.
They've somehow managed it again.
(This only happens for users of Opera 9.62)
Below is what I've changed their site to this time.
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Rusty Shackleford www.junt.co.uk / @joeyrobbo, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 20:25,
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Haha! Did they not learn from last time?
Top stuff, sir.
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JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 5 Jan 2009, 20:36,
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good work
who needs paypal eh. you might as well all paypal me your money since you have no need for it
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connor, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 20:42,
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Hahaha! :D
Excellent work once again fellah
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LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 20:53,
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But!
It isn't Play sending the image request to leech your site - it's Opera. So why the dick move against Play?
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Mon 5 Jan 2009, 21:10,
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because they set their site up and it's the site that allows opera to do it
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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 21:39,
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That's a strange piece of reasoning
IE doesn't do a stupid redirect. Well done Play!
Firefox doesn't a stupid redirect. Well done Play!
Opera does a stupid redirect. Bad Play! No biscuit!
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 21:52,
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No, IE, Firefox and other browsers fail. 404. Server not found.
The reason being that Play have linked to a server that doesn't exist outside the developer's network.
Both Opera (9) and Firefox will try to resolve incomplete addresses by searching, but Firefox only seems to do it on typed addresses. (Try it: techdesign/LandingQ4_08/QuestionOfSport/dev/pb_qos.css )
It might be misguided behaviour on Opera's part (indeed, it doesn't seem to do it in Opera 10), but it's still Play's fault for shoddy Find And Replace skills.
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Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 22:55,
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So instead of saying
"Yoo hoo, Play, I've found a bit of dodgy code, you should fix it!"
he does something intentionally detrimental to them?
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Tue 6 Jan 2009, 0:24,
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I believe that very much is the route he's gone, yes.
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Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 0:41,
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Maybe he should send them a bill
for the bandwidth.
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 19:51,
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if someone kicked me in the teeth,
i'd do something intentionally detrimental to them too.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Sat 10 Jan 2009, 13:45,
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is it Opera or their site that isn't standards compliant?
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the RAND corporation a.k.a. Kevin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 21:53,
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It's a combination of a broken link and Opera trying to fix it but failing.
So a bit stupid of Play (but definitely doesn't deserve this) - though ultimately it's Opera's fault for trying too hard.
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Tue 6 Jan 2009, 0:27,
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I think we have a play.com coder in our midst.
the real quesitons of course is, who gives a shit? it's play.com. i really don't think this will affect their market standing to too much of an horrific degree.
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Just Flange, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 14:39,
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hahah
I just looked in Opera, it is as you say :D
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 21:50,
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I can't get this to work, im using 9.63, and tried 9.62. do i need a specific version, or is it fixed?
Edit: just realised this happened ages ago, so it's probably fixed.
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BlackCloud, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 20:12,
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