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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 03:16 PM EDT
I'm using Firefox (16.0.2, the current version) on Windows 7 and I have Noscript installed.

When I first went to www.apple.com and chose the UK as my country, on a 1920x1200 screen, the entire page including the notice, fit on my screen. (The notice is right at the bottom, below links to privacy policies and other trivia like that... the notice was in the bottom ~15% of the screen area.)

But that was with Noscript blocking the JavaScript! I clicked on the Noscript bar and said "Temporarily allow www.apple.com", enabling the site's scripts. Suddenly, the site elements were layed out with more empty space between them, SO THAT THE APPLE/SAMSUNG NOTICE WAS NOW PUSHED OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.

...the script that does this layout probably existed before this notice was added to the page. The links to their "Site Map", RSS Feed, job offers, "contact us", privacy policy, etc. are all off the bottom of the screen unless you scroll.

For some reason, Apple has apparently elected not to change this behaviour [Note: I don't know whether the site already had this behaviour before the court notice.. I am assuming it did, but that might not be a wise assumption.. is there some way to check?]

It means that most users will not see the court-mandated notice unless they scroll the window down. The last thing they will see on the page, will be a row of product advertisement buttons for iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro and iPhone 5.

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