Does today's Foxtrot exist?

Cafe Society
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I was just going through my daily routine of checking the funnies, and when I get to Foxtrot, in the place where the comic should be, there’s some sort of Flash doohicky, that’s just sitting there on “Connecting…”. But I can’t get it to do anything else. Did Bill Amend actually put together a Flash-animated strip for today, and if so, did anyone get it to work? What appeared in the newpaper version? Or is this just some particularly obnoxious new advertising scheme by uComics?

If it matters, BTW, I’m (attempting to) view it in Firefox 1.03, running on Mac OSX 10.4.

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Funny. I got today’s strip no problem. Jason is teaching Quincy how to play chess.

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I get a Flash animation that looks suspiciously like a comic strip (IE 6.0, Windows 2000). As far as I can tell, there’s no animation. My guess is that they’re using Flash to make it difficult for people to download the images and post them elsewhere.

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That’s a brilliant idea! They’re doing it so people can’t copy-and-paste the strip. Why didn’t the syndicates think of that sooner?

5

I think Quincy ate yours, Chronos.

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PrintScreen appears to work just fine for picking it up of course.

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Must be that everything on the ucomics site has gone Flash - Calvin and Hobbes is the same way. But Foxtrot is still available as a .gif at http://news.yahoo.com/comics/foxtrot .

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OK, that’s slightly less obnoxious than the ad possibility. And I can still see it just fine on my office computer (which is probably why I didn’t notice this earlier). Still, it’s annoying, and bad website design: A site’s requirements ought to be determined by the content, and there’s no inherent reason why a comic strip shouldn’t work just fine on Mosaic. Well, OK, maybe the page layout and such won’t be as pretty, but the content should all be accessible.