[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 7412] Loading webpage spawns iTunes

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http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7412





------- Comment #5 from emark2k at yahoo.com  2006-07-06 10:13 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> I'm not entirely sure if this can be considered a bug.  ... Changing this behaviour would break the >"standard" links to iTunes Music Store as generated by http://www.apple.com/itunes/linkmaker/, but >I'm sure a new method could be found to support that use case.



I may not be sophisticated enough to get your post--or whether you are for or
against, so at the risk of being a blowhard:

I don't really understand how you say it would "break" a "standard"
behavior...the link maker is designed to make LINKS.  To me, "Links" are things
you click on to do something...not automated script behavior executing with
zero user input.  Loading and viewing  a web page doesn't mean execute scripts
willy nilly--that is BAD.  It is intrusive to have pop ups, but a differnet
level entirely when scripts affect changes/behaviors outiside of app I'm using.
 ((This is so offensive to me...but that doesn't mean I am right either.))

I think the Firefox and Camino have it right:  Remember who's machine it is,
and let that person decide to follow the link/allow the script behavior.

Just because Apple wishes to create a revenue stream potential doesn't mean
that usurping the user's control in the process was what they had in mind.

Strive to provide the user a warning per incident, or if you think that would
be peeing in Apple's Cereal, perhaps a pref to require consents.

Do you really think that people should be buying through ITMS and profit going
to referring sites that engage in this behavior?  How many people would even
realize what's happening?

I'd rather launch ITMS myself and give all profit to them vs. some site that
had nothing to do with music launching my player for sneaky credits.  This
probably wouldn't have bothered me as much if I'd been at a band's site and
they "pushed" me there...but even at that, it is really wrong to do it without
me CLICKING A LINK, PUSHING A BUTTON, etc..

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I don't know if the potential exists, but if this capability is there, what
other apps, script behaviors, etc. could be set into motion without my consent
for just loading/viewing a page???  Nip it in the bud!!!!


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