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I'm not seeing the Flash form in Chrome on Mac OS X.

Interesting, Chrome is directed to an HTML page, but Safari and Firefox show a full-page swf (which is piss slow to load, and clunky as hell).

It's not just the form though, it's the whole page. They have even replaced the browser scrollbar with a Flash-based scrollbar.

The page is basically a poster child for why people hate Flash.

I have tried Chrome, FF, IE, Opera and safari on windows, none of them give me flash page.

Mhm, do you have Flash installed?

I just tested in IE (in VMWare) and it gave me the flash page.

edit: maybe a/b testing?

Yes I have flash installed. Also, on latest Chrome builds Flash is integrated into Chrome, so even if I didn't have it should have worked on Chrome.

Its possible they are doing a/b testing, obviously some of you guys are getting flash.

I was thinking the failure for Chrome was UA-sniffing related, but it could be a/b testing as well.

Opera 10.50 on Vista worked fine. You have a problem with your flash.

So say we all.

My god, I just realized that after looking at my scrollbar. Terrifying. I couldn't understand why two-finger scrolling wasn't working, and now I am disgusted.

Yeah - What on earth about that page suggests that it should be done in Flash, other than "it's possible to?".

I love my flash games, but that page is a amazing fail - my credit-card auto completion didn't work, my two-finger scrolling failed to work - it's almost like they are trying to demonstrate how _not_ to create an order page.

Me too, Chrome in Windows XP

Same here, Chrome on Windows Vista.

Aha, my question exactly. I'm using Chrome too and it seemed pretty HTMLy.

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