Re: Netflix Widgets & 5.5

>Has anyone else had a problem with the OW 5.5 release and Netflix's 
>"widgets", such as the ratings stars and the "not interested" 
>button.  I'm seeing OmniWeb attempt to visit the URL they submit to, 
>placing it in the address bar, etc.  This just ends up with a blank 
>page.  For example, if I click on the fifth star to give Casablanca 
>a 5-star rating, OmniWeb tries to take me to the URL:
>
>http://www.netflix.com/SetRating?foo=bar&foo=bar&widgetid=M354611_148343_9_8&value=5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2FRecommendationsHome%3Flnkctr%3Dmhrec&ncok=true
>
>I assume Netflix is using some nice AJAXy goodness behind 
>everything.  I don't have time at the moment to drill down into 
>their Javascript to see what exactly it's doing, but the stars and 
>the "not interested" buttons are standard image tags in the HTML.
>
>Has anyone else seen this?  I didn't see this with any of the betas 
>or RCs, though I can't honestly say I used Netflix, or specifically 
>these widgets, with all of them.
>
>Otherwise, I'm enjoying OW 5.5 ;)

The same problem exists with Amazon's recommendations pages, and has 
since I first tried a sneaky peek of 5.5.

During the beta cycle, this was mentioned on the download page as a 
known issue. (It mentioned Amazon and one other site that I didn't 
use. Netflix sounds right.) I don't see any reference to this 
outstanding problem on the current download page.

I was able to use Amazon.com by setting a site-specific preference to 
identify my browser as Netscape 4.75. Some features of the 
recommendations pages are missing, but the features that are present 
all seem to work.

I would have considered this a show-stopper bug, but I rely on 
OmniWeb too much to let this stop the show. (Still checking every few 
hours for an OmniWeb update, though.)

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