[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

[Mark]

On 31 May 2007, at 00:26, der Mouse wrote:

>> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
>
>> I was pretty blown away by it but I'm aware it could be partially
>> hype.  Still as a concept it's pretty damned impressive, especially
>> as it came out of Microsoft!
>
>    This site requires that scripting is enabled in your browser.
>    Please enable scripting and refresh this page.
>
> Yeah, that's just *so* impressive.</deadpan>
>
> Of course, they don't bother saying what *kind* of scripting they
> demand.  Turns out it tries to use both text/vbscript and
> text/javascript - needlessly, as far as I can see, since it ends up
> with just a flash embed.  All the scripting does is produce an error
> for a too-old flash player.

Oh yeh, I forget to warn everyone that the web browser has flash on  
it... FWIW once I got it to load (took a couple of attempts - the  
site is pretty busy I think) it worked fine in Safari.

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