FromTheRafters <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
news:jpqlli$bei$1@dont-email.me:

> Dustin wrote:
>> FromTheRafters<erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>> news:jpp7lu$pgk$1@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> Aardvark wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 25 May 2012 21:26:44 +0000, Aardvark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps SM does pre-rendering in newsgroups?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Possibly. I might try it in Konqueror and whatever other browsers
>>>>> I have installed here.
>>>>
>>>> Just tried it in both Konq and SM. Nothing.
>>>>
>>>> If you can still open the page, could you check the source and see
>>>> if you can divine what might be amiss?
>>>>
>>> Maybe it's something in:
>>>
>>> <script type="text/javascript" src="setcookie.js"></script>
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> <script type="text/javascript"
>>> src="http://analytics.aweber.com/js/awt_analytics.js?id=6HSL"></scri
>>> pt
>>>>
>>>
>>> It uses style sheets too, but that's pretty common practice.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> firefox v12 opened it with no hassle. Noscript blocking by default.
>
> I'm not all that familiar with FF's capabilities. Do you know if,
> even with Noscript blocking by default, any pre-fetching is still
> attempted? After all - it still appears as a link in the HTML even
> though the script itself won't be allowed to execute.

Firefox by default does attempt to prefetch. NoScript doesn't seem
hassled by it.

> Most of the links (mostly graphics) are relative links, except the
> analytics one.

Yep.
I get the NoScript signature where an advertisement or graphic or
something should be. [g]




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