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- Born, raised and educated in Minnesota. Graduate of the University of Minnesota's Computer Science department. Seattle resident since 2003.
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Arrgh! Imbedding popfly in to your otherwise fine blog makes it very difficulty to read if you don’t want to install a piece of beta software. As soon as the popfly app attempts to render I get automatically navigated to the “Install Silverlight” web page. I had to disable external links just to post here
Not that I have anything against Silverlight, I just don’t want to do a beta right now!
Sorry about that; I’ll make a point of linking to external files in the future
Aaron
Sorry, that came out wrong! The problem is obviosly not links to external files, it’s the embedded popfly… since I don’t have silverlight installed, when your page loads it auto-navigates me away from your page to the “install silverlight beta” page, not giving me a chance to even stop the loading of the object, and making it impossible to view your blog without telling my browser to not navigate from your page. What I really had to disable was embedded objects. This just seems a somewhat poor UI design, and since you’re working on it, why not comment?
Other types of embedded objects, like flash, don’t auto-navigate you away from the page you’re looking at, they present a popup or the likes, so you can still look at the page without installing the object. Does that make more sense? Really, if you try to load your page on a machine without silverlight installed you’ll see what I mean.
Thanks for reporting this. I’m passing it on to the Silverlight team and to a dev on mine for further investigation.
Cheers,
Aaron
Yay, it’s fixed today
I don’t know if you had anything to do with it, but thanks for passing it on!
Well, I wasn’t the one who fixed it, but I did pass the bug onto my dev team. I’m happy to hear it’s working better for you
Cheers,
Aaron