I'm using Firefox (16.0.2, the current version) on Windows 7 and I have Noscript
installed.
When I first went to www.apple.com and chose the UK as my
country, on a 1920x1200 screen, the entire page including the notice, fit on my
screen. (The notice is right at the bottom, below links to privacy policies and
other trivia like that... the notice was in the bottom ~15% of the screen
area.)
But that was with Noscript blocking the JavaScript! I clicked on the
Noscript bar and said "Temporarily allow www.apple.com", enabling the site's
scripts. Suddenly, the site elements were layed out with more empty space
between them, SO THAT THE APPLE/SAMSUNG NOTICE WAS NOW PUSHED OFF THE BOTTOM
OF THE SCREEN.
...the script that does this layout probably existed
before this notice was added to the page. The links to their "Site Map", RSS
Feed, job offers, "contact us", privacy policy, etc. are all off the bottom of
the screen unless you scroll.
For some reason, Apple has apparently elected
not to change this behaviour [Note: I don't know whether the site already had
this behaviour before the court notice.. I am assuming it did, but that might
not be a wise assumption.. is there some way to check?]
It means that most
users will not see the court-mandated notice unless they scroll the window
down. The last thing they will see on the page, will be a row of product
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