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Blocks drop downs very uncool

Agent Smith

Very very Uncool


please change it! Please!

qz

Get rid of it! Boo-urns!

muckwarrior

I've noticed a few different banners doing this recently. Seriously annoying!!!

aidan_walsh

Boo Flash adverts.

billy the squid

firefox verson 1.0.4.

having the same problem

dudara

Bit of a nuisance all right.

Mimikyu

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flogen

aye, just noticed that myself, firefox 1.0.4 and all.

amazingemmet

Its annoying me too

Supercell

Noticed this in work today too, very irritating, not doing it now so maybe was just the particular ad at the time. If its been fixed already , thanks, loving the new layout btw

kinkstr

billy the squid wrote:

firefox verson 1.0.4.

having the same problem

Me to

Rabies

Same here.

Attol

I did a little experiment. I'm using Firefox as my primary browser so I decided to check and see if the same problem arose with IE. It didn't. So just a Firefox glitch. If you use IE you shouldn't have problems.

Irishstabber

Same with Opera :mad:

jor el

adblock. Problem solved

eirebhoy

Longfield wrote:

Noticed this in work today too, very irritating, not doing it now so maybe was just the particular ad at the time.

Yes, the top up ad.

ApeXaviour

grr..

Ciaran500

This is when Adblock should be used

Drag00n79

It's annoying alright. C'mon guys, sort it out. As for using IE, I don't think so.

Matthewthebig

I have adblocked it. and it just comes back!

airetam_storm

Its still not unbrokened :mad:

eirebhoy

Matthewthebig wrote:

I have adblocked it. and it just comes back!

I had this problem too. The link seems to be changing all the time. When you click to adblock it, instead of adblocking the whole link just put a * after /ads.

This is what should be blocked:
http://www.star-adserver.com/ads/*

Supercell

Curses its doing it again with this Top Up Club ad, very very annoying!!

Edit, as req by Dev - Firefox 1.04 running on WinXP SP2.

DeVore

Ok, we'll try and fix it but we've had this problem before and come up against a blank wall.

Can you ALWAYS put browser and version number on your reports of errrors as it helps enormously...

If anyone can offer help to fix this please speak up as more brains are always helpful.

I can understand why you adblock it but I would ask that you unblock it when its fixed as its part of how we keep the site running... thanks.

DeV.

ApeXaviour

Firefox 1.0 btw.
It seems only to be happening since the "top up club" banner has been in.

aidan_walsh

Firefox 1.0.4.

It seems to be happening with most of the Flash based adverts I've seen stemming from star-adserver, by the way. There is an o2 one, and a War of the Worlds promo one that are doing the same to me.

funky penguin

I noticed this, and then I tried to reach the feedback forum through the drop down menu.....

How bitterly Ironic.

But funny none the less.

RVN10

i hate i couldnt enter some forums dam you banner

kenmc

Happening to me with the top-up banner only - the o2 one at the moment is fine! wierd
Opera
Version 8.0
Build 7561
Platform Win32
System Windows 2000

rsynnott

For Mozilla and Firefox, try FlashBlock.

Gordon

It seems to happen when you have a flash movie that is animated..

Even making the html code flash insertion W3c compliant doesn't help matters. link. Flash just seems to have a tendency to want to shine through all overlying HTML (including layers) when a rollover or nextframe is called.

I'm definately no Flash/HTML genius but I'd say that all Flash ads should be altered to gifs or to static, no animation, no rollover Flash objects. (which kinda defeats the purpose of flash objects really)

In short - I'm not much help!

DeVore

We've taken it down for the moment. We'll run tests to see if we can fix it. Worst case we are restructure the page so the ads are on top and the nav below it.

DeV.

Talliesin

It's related to the way some elements are given different windows at the OS level with a different handle and device context (for those unfamiliar with windows programming, not only are the things we normally call "windows" windows, but so are most buttons, textboxes, controls etc.).

The more recent browsers use the same device context for almost everything (the "shine through" effect used to happen with more elements when dHTML first came on the scene, now it's only a few elements that cause issues) but the windows used by Flash and other plug-ins tend to be a remaining case of a different window being used.

Can't think of a cure in this case right now, but if I do I will of course let ye know.

Rabies

Could the ads be placed at the bottom of the page between the end of the thread and quick reply box.
They will still be seen when a thread is read and won't be too far down the page as to not be seen.

Gordon

axer may have this sorted with his link to make the flash transparent.

Placing html code into the object ID solves the problem when testing with a flash element underneath the dropdown boards menu. The only problem is that the background of the flash element is also transparent.

hostyle

Talliesin wrote:

The more recent browsers use the same device context for almost everything (the "shine through" effect used to happen with more elements when dHTML first came on the scene, now it's only a few elements that cause issues) but the windows used by Flash and other plug-ins tend to be a remaining case of a different window being used.

Can't think of a cure in this case right now, but if I do I will of course let ye know.

Edit the javascript menu code:

either (easy) hide all Flash content when a menu drops down, or (harder) calculate the clipping area of the menu item and if its going to share the area with the ad, hide it. Then undo any hiding after the menu has closed.

I've had to do this with drop downs and form elements before, its not a nice solution, but it works.

Zaphod

For Opera users, you can turn off Flash banners quickly by pressing F12 and unchecking 'Enable plugins'.

cuckoo

The eircom broadband banner ad is blocking the menus for me at the moment, I'm using Firefox 1.0.