…or a Mac.
http://www.fuck.org/~max/cup_holder.jpg
I was gonna post this in the Pit, then I decided to post it in MPSIMS, then I changed my mind again. For obvious reasons.
Yeah, it’s a neat VB Script trick, but when you think about it, it’s a litte scary.
I don’t get it. It’s a big-ass cup holder. So?
Okay, that surprised the heck out of me. And a GIF can do that now? I agree, it’s a little freaky.
Ah. Snip the cup_holder.jpg bit off.
Pretty cool. Don’t look at that page if you’re on an acid trip. Trust me.
You know, I didn’t even notice that my CD tray ejected! :smack:
That is neat!
Apparently GIFs can’t do that, but JPGs can. :o
interesting - in Netscape/Mozilla on Linux, I got: The image “http://www.fuck.org/~max/cup_holder.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
Here’s the scipt, from View Source:
<SCRIPT language=VBScript>
<!--
Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
End If
-->
</SCRIPT>
I’ll add, I’m running Opera 7.02 on XP Pro and I got the “Image” place holder tag and nothing happened. Naturally, I did a C&P to IE and jumped when both my drives opened.
Or if you’re an epileptic sensative to rapidly flashing lights.
Oh, that sounds awful!
I tried to open the file in a Mozilla browser. Nothing. Tried opening it in IE. Just a broken image icon. Nothing.
(But I’m on a Mac. So I suppose that’s the point the OP is trying to make!)
What OS/browser version is this picture supposed to open the CD-ROMs on? Which one is supposed to open the drives? The trippy colors or the big cup holder? Neither of my drives ejected with either of the pictures. I’m using Windows 2000 SP2 with IE 5.5.
It’s the big cup-holder pic that does it. You might have Active-X controls turned off, neutron star
How weird. The first time I loaded the page, it opened my CD-ROM drives. The second time, however, it didn’t.
What’s that music from? It’s really addictive. Sounds like something from an old NES game, remixed, obviously.
Huh? Nothing happened. Win XP Pro here. Using latest version of IE. Active X controls are disabled.
I take it that the cdrom is supposed to open or something?
Enable Active-X and try it again.
Oh, so this is the rich MS-enhanced internet experience that being an Opera user excludes me from. That and security nightmares.
That is strange- okay, no more IE for me, I am switching to Opera.
It didn’t do anything for me, and I’m using XP Pro with IE’s security settings on all the defaults. Looking at the code, it makes sense that it wouldn’t do anything – I don’t think a web page should be allowed to create and call the methods of a WMPlayer object. Maybe this was a security hole that got plugged up.
Oh, and for the record, the functionality has nothing to do with the jpg file itself. The picture doesn’t need to be there, and is probably just there as a distraction to make the whole thing seem a little more mysterious. The url, even though it ends in “.jpg”, points to a text file which has the script and an <img> tag in it pointing to a seperate .jpg file which is the actual picture of the cupholder.
cup_holder.jpg does nothing, and all I see when I remove it is some furry guy with a weird flash movie for a mouth.
What cup holder?