Disconnect impairs CNN NewsPulse use

[m]

http://newspulse.cnn.com/ doesn't allow you to expand items if facebook is blocked via disconnect.  Is there any way around this other than unblocking facebook?

[Brian Kennish]

Hey Chris, I'm sorry for taking so long to answer! (I'm ridiculously
behind on mail post travels.)

I think temporarily unblocking Facebook is the only workaround. CNN
looks to be referencing a JavaScript object defined in a file hosted
by Facebook. When the Facebook file is blocked, the CNN JavaScript
that handles the element expansion fails.

[Chris Milam]

Thanks for the response.  This is a really great extension!  Maybe you could add a whitelist option that we could configure for this type of thing.  (Probably already been suggested - but thought I'd mention it just in case.)

Chris

[Brian Kennish]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Chris Milam <chris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  This is a really great extension!  Maybe you could
> add a whitelist option that we could configure for this type of thing.
>  (Probably already been suggested - but thought I'd mention it just in
> case.)

Thanks Chris!

I'm not particularly a fan of whitelists (for reasons expressed in
this other thread I also just belatedly chimed in on:
http://groups.google.com/group/disconnectere/browse_thread/thread/f7bb894c194ee519?hl=en),
but I am coming around as more and more people ask for one.

[Chris Milam]

Very interesting.  I can see your point about a whitelist maintenance, etc.

I'm not even sure this is possible with Chrome - maybe you could have a context menu that disables disconnect for a specific event - navigation or javascript execution.  In other words execute this link and don't invoke disconnect behavior - but only for this execution.  I suppose it would be too hard to define what the execution path is given the way browsers work. However, it would be really neat, if that could be made to work.

Chris

[Brian Kennish]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Chris Milam <chris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not even sure this is possible with Chrome - maybe you could have a
> context menu that disables disconnect for a specific event - navigation or
> javascript execution.  In other words execute this link and don't invoke
> disconnect behavior - but only for this execution.  I suppose it would be
> too hard to define what the execution path is given the way browsers work.
> However, it would be really neat, if that could be made to work.

I have something similar, I think, in progress :-) -- imperfect
certainly, but neat in many cases.