it hurts because it's true

[rone]

Foxtrot explains Web 2.0.

For the 2% of people without the latest and greatest version of Flash, i give you the cartoon in glorious PNG format:

Comments

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

"Flash 9 must be installed" ?

Dude, it's a fucking COMIC STRIP. TINY .GIF IMAGE, SHOWS UP PRINTED ON NEWSPRINT IN THE EARLY MORNING. Fuck you RIGHT IN THE EAR! "Flash 9 must be installed" THESE NUTS.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It's their lame-ass attempt to cut down on image hotlinking.

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Actually, I imagine they're even more concerned about preventing people from using scripts to read the comic without visiting the site and seeing the ads. Which, in a nutshell, is why Web 2.0 won't fly. Web site operators don't want you to have convenient access to the semantics of the content, especially not if you're going to do something interesting with it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, that's more or less why they don't want people hotlinking the images. As for Web site operators not wanting users to have easy access to the semantics of the content, that's nothing new; they've been trying to obfuscate stuff with Javascript and Flash for years now.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

It really is a shame that they have no idea how to actually do that.

http://infa.abo.fi/~dagren/cgi-bin/comix.pl?strips=foxt

Tee hee.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You, sir, are a terrist. Keep up the good work.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

Here's how to bypass their lame protection by hand if you don't want to bother going through my script:

View a strip in their flash viewer. Then, go to about:cache. Go to the memory cache page, and search for "ucomics", until you find the right URL to the picture.

All the Flash app does is download the image, through your browser, and display it. When they introduced it, I thought it would be too much work to work around it. Turns out, it wasn't any such thing.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that is not working for me, although i did find many hits in the disk cache (although, oddly, not specifically for Foxtrot).

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

I may have misremembered which cache I dug it out of.

Terrist?

[butterflygenius.livejournal.com]

Is this a new word I have never heard b4? Or did you mean terrorist?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The president says "terrist". He wouldn't just make a word up. And even if he did, he's the president and he can do that.

true

[butterflygenius.livejournal.com]

...He is the "Decider" after all... :)

[mskala.livejournal.com]

God bless the child that's got his own...

Oh, dear.

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

You mean I even have to learn some new meaning of CMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_Monitor_System) now?

[tomscud.livejournal.com]

Nice icon.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Disabling all plug-ins works wonders there. Apparently it will cease to do so “in the coming weeks”.

Even then it can still be tcpdumped (or worse, depending on how sadistic and generally deranged one is feeling).