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Subject: [Leica] flickr: non-members can't see photos?
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 23:01:51 -0500
References: <53AF6E8F.5010703@threshinc.com> <F9DE4595-DE85-498F-AB06-F6CC456E66FF@gmail.com> <CAF8hL-HySgnwkqFaLiS+V==KXUH+_Go7Ppi4D7A6+Ui3qjARgQ@mail.gmail.com>

Come to think of it, I probably have not been signed in to my account in 
several months on any computer.  I really only post images to my website and 
to Facebook, and often the FB postings are links to SonC.com.

Sent from my iPad

> On Jun 28, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Remember that with 'cloud' systems, they can roll out their software to
> different areas at different times
>> On Jun 28, 2014 8:36 PM, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have an account, but am not signed in on the iPad, so unless Flickr has
>> some genius in figuring out who I am on a strange machine, new browser 
>> over
>> someone else's broadband, then they must be magic. I can see the pix.
>> 
>> SonC
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Jun 28, 2014, at 8:40 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Doug, thanks, I think you may have the answer.  flickr likes you to have
>> the most current browser versions, because it is constantly messing with
>> its user interface. At my old workplace we had to use Internet Explorer 8
>> for all company stuff. flickr stopped working when they "improved" their
>> user interface the first time. Luckily I could also use Chrome, which did
>> work.
>>> 
>>> It's possible that the people having issues with flickr are using older
>> versions of their browser.  It's also possible that their email client is
>> not dealing with the embedded at-sign in flickr links (which is dumb, but
>> it's how they do things).  The links can be mangled because they are
>> misinterpreted as email addresses, or truncated for security reasons.
>>> 
>>> The browser world is getting more Babel-ish lately. I noticed that
>> Javascript and Java things (like picture links on Rangefinderforum, or the
>> Upload Applet at gallery.leica-users.org are breaking now. Sometimes
>> specifically enabling Java(script) for a particular site or "zone" 
>> restores
>> the function, and sometimes not. Life in the 21st century.
>>> 
>>> --Peter
>>> 
>>> Peter Klein wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Recently several people have told me that they can't view my photos on
>>>>> flickr, and instead get a sign-on page.
>>>> 
>>>> Doug Herr wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> These both fork for me (Safari).  Flicker doesn't work at all with
>> older
>>>> versions of IE (the XP computer at the office).
>>>> 
>>>> Doug Herr
>>>> Birdman of Sacramento
>>>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>> 
>>> 
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