Hello!
So recently i was surfing in Apples page and came across an unnecessary button on Apples page. It's located on the left top corner (25px from top and 25 px from left). I found it a fun discovery and hope it is just an unnecessary button, otherwise I will look dumb 😀.
The webpage is Start something new and i linked it below.
I see no button.
Screenshot?
An "anti-virus" program called Avast will do that. Are you using it, or anything like it?
It is there. No, you don't look dumb. But I think it is just leftover from some page it was copied from. I don't see that it has any function.
I don't see this in Safari 7.1.4; the source display is slightly different from your screenshot (not the content, the way it's displayed) leading me to suppose you are using an older version of Safari.
Plainly this shouldn't be showing; Apple's coding is (as always) extremely dense and the CSS file no better, so how this has happened I can't say. It's presumably a display bug. Safari does have the odd flakiness (some web pages don't work properly in it).
I'm using Google Chrome in the screenshot. In Safari I just need to hover around that corner and a hand comes up like if I was hovering over a link or a button. You can clearly see it's a button with no function in the screenshot. I just wanted Apple to know about that. Hahah thanks for the replies.
We are just other users like you. I suggest filing a bug report with Apple: http://bugreport.apple.com
You will need a free developer account.
I can confirm that the cursor changes in Safari but nothing else happens. In Chrome for me the cursor changes, but the ghost button doesn't appear unless you view the code and then hover over that line in it (so that it highlights the element).
My guess would be that they've used a template page then modified it to suit the particular contents, but omitted to remove the redundant coding which produces this effect. That's one of the risks of using such complicated coding.
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