{"by":"mechanical_fish","id":432782,"kids":[432965,432793,432887,432794,432824,432903,432791,432885,432899,432817,433419],"parent":432743,"text":"I'm being attacked by an evil widget on this page. There is a big-ass Javascript popup, apparently perpetrated by something called \"PostRank\", that obscures the page on initial load (in Safari 3/Mac). It has a list of posts labeled \"Top Posts\", none of which are the one I want to read. I can't figure out how to make this thing go away -- there is no close box, and clicking inside it links me away to something else -- and when I scroll the damn thing <i>follows me</i> to make very sure that I never get a glimpse of the actual post. I can't see around it.<p>Words cannot express how infuriating that widget is. It's like Snap.com <i>only more evil</i>. Banish it back to the nether regions from whence it came and submit this post again so I can actually read it.<p>UPDATE: Seriously, I can't get rid of it. Clicking inside it, clicking outside it, the Escape key, nasty words about its mother -- nothing works. I even tried following one of its links, and the resulting page had the <i>same obscuring widget on it</i>. Who designs the UI for these things?<p>I'll try restarting Safari.<p>FURTHER UPDATE: Nope, it's out of excuses. That is officially the suckiest non-musical widget I've ever seen.","time":1231883917,"type":"comment"}