So... you want them to fix a bug to stop annoying things... and in doing
so allow you to do completely different annoying things?
On 6/16/2013 3:41 PM, Doctor McKay wrote:
The problem is, many players are apparently incapable of pressing the
F7 button, which led Valve to cripple it in the first place.
I mainly want Valve to prevent MOTDs from being loaded on Quickplay
clients so that I can detect if the client joined from Quickplay or
not (force the client to load a hidden page, then check if the page
was loaded). If there was some way to detect this, then I wouldn't
necessarily want this change to be made.
As it stands, however, there is no way to determine whether or not a
client is able to view an MOTD window.
Doctor McKay
http://www.doctormckay.com
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This idea would cripple functionality for radio on quickplay
servers, just being one example of something it would further ruin
for TF2 if such a restriction was imposed. I myself can't say I've
come across servers like this, and if there are any then I imagine
it's a mere handful (minor percentage of all QP servers). All
players have to do in such instances of finding a server is just
blacklist it and/or report it in-game, case closed. Alternatively
if something is decided to be done in view of one complaint then
disabling window.open would eliminate any new windows that you
might be talking about even if that's the case. As I say, I
haven't found this when going on servers myself.
On 16 June 2013 20:19, Doctor McKay <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As I'm sure most are aware, a little while ago Valve changed
the TF2 MOTD panel so that it can't be reopened by the server
if the client joins via Quickplay (or using the matchmaking
argument on the connect command). However, this just prevents
the MOTD panel itself from redisplaying. The server can still
open pages in the client's MOTD panel in the background.
This means that the server can still spam traffic-to-cash URLs
on clients, many of which have noise-making Flash embedded or
which open popup windows using JavaScript. In order to
maintain the "sterile bubble" in Quickplay, Valve might want
to consider preventing servers from opening webpages on
Quickplay-joining clients entirely, not just preventing the
panel from being redisplayed.
Doctor McKay
http://www.doctormckay.com
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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