VH1 Intentionally breaking Mac access...
From MacFixIt Article:
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"First, they have a promotion called 'Hear Music First,' which allows users to listen to an entire album before its release through Windows Media Player. Their FAQ, under System Requirements, states that it is 'PC only. Not available on Macintosh.' However, if you attempt it anyway, you can listen to the album by copying the link for 'Listen to entire album' into the 'Open URL..' box in Windows Media Player 7.1. This should be pretty easy to accommodate in the site's HTML code.
"Second, and more alarming, is what happens when you attempt to stream video clips from their website. If you click a video link, the proprietary Media Player window opens, and displays a message that video is 'not currently supported on Macintosh.' Clicking the button to display the URL shows a browser-check flag ("&isMac=true, see NoVideo.jpg); by simply removing this flag, video plays as expected, in the window, using the WMP plugin (see
YesVideo.jpg). Why are Mac users once again being left out for no reason?"
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Let them know about this and push OS X's importance. Perhaps we should have a permanent thread dealing with this sort of thing. You won't get too many switchers if they keep seeing erroneous "Does not work on Macintosh" messages at their favorite sites. Strength in numbers people.
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"First, they have a promotion called 'Hear Music First,' which allows users to listen to an entire album before its release through Windows Media Player. Their FAQ, under System Requirements, states that it is 'PC only. Not available on Macintosh.' However, if you attempt it anyway, you can listen to the album by copying the link for 'Listen to entire album' into the 'Open URL..' box in Windows Media Player 7.1. This should be pretty easy to accommodate in the site's HTML code.
"Second, and more alarming, is what happens when you attempt to stream video clips from their website. If you click a video link, the proprietary Media Player window opens, and displays a message that video is 'not currently supported on Macintosh.' Clicking the button to display the URL shows a browser-check flag ("&isMac=true, see NoVideo.jpg); by simply removing this flag, video plays as expected, in the window, using the WMP plugin (see
YesVideo.jpg). Why are Mac users once again being left out for no reason?"
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Let them know about this and push OS X's importance. Perhaps we should have a permanent thread dealing with this sort of thing. You won't get too many switchers if they keep seeing erroneous "Does not work on Macintosh" messages at their favorite sites. Strength in numbers people.
[email protected]
Comments
[quote]When recently visiting your site I came across links/videos that said they would not be able to play on a Mac. It just so happens that both Windows Media Player and the movies play just fine on a Mac. I would suggest you actually try things before you say they won't work, especially since in this case it takes more work to make it not work than to just leave it alone. Seems like a rather poor business decision to go out of your way to push away customers.
As a PC and Mac user, I find it annoying that you would go out of your way to exclude potential customers. I'm not asking for anything special, just don't go out of the way to break things that are designed to work.
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