Re: Netflix Widgets & 5.5

On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Michael Burton wrote:
>
> 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.)

The problem with ratings systems on both amazon and netflix is still  
a known issue and one that we still hope to correct. It didn't make  
it into 5.5 unfortunately, in part due to the fact that the problem  
also existed in 5.1.3.

We will be correcting this in the future though, sorry to keep you  
waiting.

Known issues in OmniWeb are listed on this page here:

<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/support/>

Thanks!
Troy