Yahoo! Lies: You can play Capture in Linux

[John Bailo]

Yahoo Games are based in Java.

They have added those newer simple games like Collapse, as Java applets.

But I noticed a warning at the bottom...you can read it on this image:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jabailo/yahoo_capture.jpg

It says:

Note: Collapse is not compatible with Unix or Macintosh computers.

Yet, here I am, playing Collapse just fine in Konqueror.

Why does Yahoo LIE ?!?!

 

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 04:00:13 GMT, John Bailo wrote:

Your choice of cross-post and Follow-Up is quite dubious..
X-post: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.lang.java.programmer
F'Up: comp.os.linux.advocacy

If this is an 'advocacy' question, best to..
X-post: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
..With F'Ups to ..
F'Up: comp.lang.java.advocacy

*I* have set the follow-ups to c.l.java.advocacy.

Yahoo Games are based in Java.

They have added those newer simple games like Collapse, as Java applets.

But I noticed a warning at the bottom...you can read it on this image:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jabailo/yahoo_capture.jpg

Which references this page..
<http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/cl.html>

That page has an applet element with some interesting aspects to it..

<APPLET code=gamehouse.SuperApplet.class
codebase="http://mtab.games.yahoo.com/wbgameshsc/gamehouse"
archive="Collapse.zip"
height=400 width=460 VIEWASTEXT MAYSCRIPT>

I have never heard of VIEWASTEXT..

<PARAM NAME="CABBASE" VALUE="Collapse.cab">

'.cab' files are Win specific.

<param name="USERCLASS" VALUE="com.gh.YahooUser">

This possibly allows a connection between the applet and a
Yahoo user's account.

...

Note: Collapse is not compatible with Unix or Macintosh computers.

Yet, here I am, playing Collapse just fine in Konqueror.

I suspect there are aspects of the game you have yet to encounter
that will fail. My best guess is a Yahoo functionality to report
hi-scores back.

Why does Yahoo LIE ?!?!

Why do the uninformed jump to ludicrous conclusions?(!?!)