[Please see update below — this has nothing to do with the MacPaint page.]
This has been news for at least a day or two:
For those who want to see how it worked "under the hood", we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library.
What's odd is how the web page at the Computer History Museum made Safari 5 freak out when I tried to post the link on Facebook. I tried pasting into the Link field, expecting Facebook to display a text excerpt and select a preview image like it always does. Instead I got an empty window with this in Safari's address field:
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/composer/attachment.php? data[url]=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerhistory.org %2Fhighlights%2Fmacpaint%2F &app_id=2309869772&stream_id=724065703 &composer_id=c4c46efc1298210b2a81b4
I thought I could get around this by pasting the link into the "What's on your mind?" field. Now Facebook did display an excerpt and an image, but the "Share" button had no effect.
Ironically, Safari's "View Source" menu item is disabled when I go to the page in question.
What could be so freaky about a simple web page? From a quick glance at the page source (viewed in Chrome, which had none of the above problems), it seems to be basic HTML and JavaScript.
Seems like I should report a bug to either Apple or Facebook — probably both — but I'm kind of busy now.
UPDATE: As I learned from Marquis's comment, this happens in Safari with any link — even plain old http://www.google.com. So it has nothing to do with the Computer History Museum site. I tried the latest versions of other browsers:
- Opera 10.60: Behaves like Safari (blank window with AJAX URL).
- Firefox 3.6.7: I paste the link and hit "Attach", and nothing happens.
- Camino 2.03: No problem.
- Chrome 5.0.375.99: No problem, as I mentioned earlier.
I just did a search on the beginning of that url (up to /data[url]=), and found this page. For the past 24 hours or so, I've been having the same issue, but with pretty much every URL I attempt to post. Let me know if you find a solution to this problem… it's quite irritating 😛
Whoa, you are right, it happens with other links as well. The only solution I've found is to use Chrome instead of Safari. Maybe other browsers would work as well.
Hello, I have had the same issue since July 21. I use Safari as well. PLEASE send me an email if you get any answers. PeterMichaelMarino@mac.com Thanks so much.