While Apple has removed the 'resize' code that forced users to scroll down the page to view the court-ordered apology text, you still require a large display to view the apology.
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Less than a week after Apple was rumbled by Reddit users of including code to hide a court-ordered apology to Samsung on its U.K. Web site, the code has now been removed.
The code forced visitors to scroll down the page in order to see an apology that Apple was ordered to display on its U.K. Web site for one month, by resizing the central image of the new iPad mini and 'sticking' four separate product advertisements at the bottom of the browser window.
This meant that no matter how tall their browser window is or how dense their screen resolution, visitors to the site must forcibly scroll down the page to view the apology to Samsung.
The Apple U.K. Web site now displays two alternating fixed-sized images of the iPad mini, and the new iPad with Retina display -- refreshing the page cycles between the two recently launched products -- while the four boxes underneath are no longer fixed to the bottom of the display. While the central images are still large in size and many displays require the user to scroll down, the forced-scrolling 'resize' code is no longer loaded into the Web site's code.
Though the code still exists on Apple's servers... [Read more]
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