Their site requires Flash to see/do anything

Story: Cradle, New Adventure Game With Stunning 3D Graphics Coming to LinuxTotal Replies: 8
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gewb

Feb 14, 2012
5:53 PM EDT
Their site requires Flash to see / do / navigate - I don't and will not do Flash.

If anyone here allows Flash on their system, could you please ask them to provide a non-Flash About and Contact page? I would like to ask them the anticipated retail cost of the game - yes, I do pay for Linux-based software! This game looks like something I can get into!

Regards, GEWB
BernardSwiss

Feb 14, 2012
6:42 PM EDT
Seems to work well enough for me (except for the Flash videos, of course).

I generally have Flash-Block enabled, but I tried it with Flash entirely disabled as well. Navigation worked fine, too

Could it be a JavaScript issue, rather than Flash?
tracyanne

Feb 14, 2012
6:46 PM EDT
yes it looked more like a javascript issue to me
Fettoosh

Feb 14, 2012
7:14 PM EDT
I had no problem at all with the site. Using Chrome, I watched multiple videos and everything worked fine.

Here is their contact info:

Quoting:Contact Us:

For any information please contact us:

Email: vibes.ubuntu (at) gmail (dot) com


BernardSwiss

Feb 14, 2012
8:11 PM EDT
While we're on the topic though, I have trouble seeing the videos on this site http://www.newscientist.com/ (for example, this http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/02/hidden-equati... story) when using Firefox.

At first I thought this might be because I was using FF 3, But now I'm using FF 10, and still not seeing even a place-holder. But in Chromium or Opera these Flash videos/animations work just fine. And I'm not having this problem on other sites.

Any suggestions about where I should look/what might be causing this?

+ + + +

Never mind -- it turns out to be because I have the Ghostery add-on/extension http://www.ghostery.com/ installed to block "web-bugs", and one of those web-bugs http://www.ghostery.com/apps/brightcove appears to be tied into the video hosting/management/tracking used by the New Scientist website.

Possibly gewb has added a few sources to Ghostery, or configured his /etc/hosts file or a proxy to block the damned things?
mbaehrlxer

Feb 15, 2012
9:16 AM EDT
i think you are talking about two different sites. the site with the article (ubuntuvibes) works fine, but http://flying-cafe.com/en/#/main/ presents me with a fullscreen flash. there is an x in the corner to remove it but what remains is an empty black background.

rather sad, because the flash content doesn't look like anything you couldn't do with html. even the embedded video is just from youtube.

at least the blog operates without flash, so those who want to follow the updates can do so without trouble: http://flying-cafe.blogspot.com/

greetings, eMBee.
flufferbeer

Feb 15, 2012
1:55 PM EDT
@mbaehrlxer,

Sure seems to me through the comments here that this is YET ANOTHER hyped game coming to Linux via buggy alphabeta-ware. What are the game devs REALLY looking for; more testers before Cradle comes out as an 0.1 RC in the late Spring or Summertime???!!!

2c
gewb

Feb 15, 2012
2:01 PM EDT
Thanks mbaehrlxer - my bad for not putting the URL in. The flying-cafe site is the one I can't access. Saw the blog.

Thanks to Fettoosh for posting the email - I'll drop them a line!

Regards, GEWB
Fettoosh

Feb 15, 2012
2:21 PM EDT
@gewb,

Here is more info from flying-cafe.com site
Quoting: We are glad be in touch and answer your questions. Please, make sure to use the following email addresses to contact us:

• For media-support and public relations — pr@flying-cafe.com

• Ideas and proposals for cooperation, sales, game publishing — sales@flying-cafe.com

• Any other questions — webmaster@flying-cafe.com

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