The buggy \"click here\" ad
 

It seems to be a rather severe rendering error with this ad on my computer. Please fix it or make it removable or something. It just sticks there covering up a big portion of the screen.

Here is a screenshot:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3...reenjb8.th.jpg

I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Fedora Core 8.

Thank you in advance. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ok, I removed it myself with noscript not allowing shrapnelgames.com but still www.shrapnelcommunity.com. But now I'll miss out on good deals. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: The buggy \"click here\" ad
 

yah, some little irritation here using firefox, winxp, nvidia graphics, but it's not so bad for me.

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Slight rant (please forgive me):
I HATE FLASH CONTENT.
End Rant

Thank you for indulging me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Edit:
Just wanted to add that I am also running Firefox and use flash block to combat flash graphics, but I still end up seeing a huge flash block in the center of the screen for a second while the flash content downloads prior to popping into position in the corner. Very annoying.

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It is fairly awful.

Actually it is so out-of-place looking that at first I thought it was some kind of adware or something. Being as I'm running Linux I thought maybe I'd been hacked!

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Yeah, that ad is pretty hideous and annoying. It's a shame when good sites put up ads that are so bad it actually motivates you to disable parts of the site to avoid them.

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Funny, it looks fun for me, with firefox, adblocks and other things in place.

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There's an ad?

Firefox, No Script and Adblock on windows

Firefox with Privoxy on Linux

what ad?

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Yes, yes, I also use it, but on some pages I actually want all the content like on this one (until now).

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I hadn't even noticed the ad before. It's looks good for me, but it must be very annoying.

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Strange. The advertisement looks just fine to me. If I point my mouse at it, and
only if I point my mouse, it expands. Before I read this thread, I had not noticed
it. I am running a fairly standard Firefox on Windows XP.

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Haha! Cute. Also: Works on my system! (Firefox 2.0.0.12, Mac OSX 10.4.11)

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It works for me in Windows as well, but I don't use that OS for much anymore.

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Yeah, looks normal until you hover over it, and then it expands to that purple block.
Now gone thanks to adblock.
(FireFox 2.0.0.12)

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It's really quite unobtrusive compared to most Flash ads. I didn't even notice it up there until this thread pointed it out. And it seems to work just fine, rolls back out of the way when you mouse off of it.

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Works fine in the latest IE. I must say good screenie the giant eagle was a nice touch. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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iBook G4, 10.4, using Safari.

It's unobtrusive for me; rolls out and back smoothly if you mouse over it. The wobbling little curl is cute.

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Well, on linux you get a huge purple square invading your screen every time your load/reload a page. It's ugly and horrible.

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Same here. Ugh.

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Get the Flash plug-in for Linux. There is one out now.

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I'm running 9,0,48,0. That's almost the latest version. The purple square lasts about a half-second and then goes away 9 out of 10 times. When it doesn't go away I can mouse over in the corner and it minimizes. Still, it's really annoying, especially the half-second purple square.

Acutally, even the little box in the corner is annoying, when I go to close my tab, an accidental mouse-over on the 'click here' burns my retinas away with the giant purple square.

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Maybe someone just Solar Brilliance, vfb, and it's not your computer at all!!!

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Well, I understand you guys' dilemma, but sites have to pay bills, and advertising is the best way to do it. And the advertising on Shrapnel's site is, overall, not very annoying at all. Just don't mouse over that area if you don't want to see it.

And, yes, I work for an advertising agency. In fact, I make some of those annoying Flash ads (not this one though). So believe me, this one is much less annoying than some of the ones I have been told to build.

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The nice, low key, unobtrusive ads running down the left nav column and the minimal gif banner in the heading are fine. But the latest gizmo, wizbang, 'everyone else is doing it' Flash just becomes noise and drives folks like me away. One example is that I used to search via Yahoo several years ago, and now I am a google fanatic.

I am not saying that Shrapnel has become a sudden demon because they stuck a Flash ad on the forums, I just love this place so much that I really hate to see it go the Flash route.

Along a similar vein, remember when flashing text was all the rage? Pretty soon all the text is flashing and trying to get your attention and it just becomes an obscene noise.

Uh, I was ranting again wasn't I? Sorry about that. Thanks for listening anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I don't have to mouse over it. I get a big enormous blob of shocking purple on every single load or reload. And occasionally the blob does not go away.

I don't mind the ads in the headers. I even click on them. It was an ad like that in the Civ forums (or AC? can't remember) that led me to Dominions, yay!

I would never, ever, ever, click on a big ugly link through the depths of purplish hell splayed across my browser.

Edit: Installed noscript. Yay, no more purple hell for me.

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Actually there aren't any ads on the left nav column, those all link to the most recent press releases. The only ad is at the top of the page, and now yes, the corner (which is avoidable), and all that one is doing is pointing out this month's specials.

Now, as far as VFB's issue that will be something that needs to be looked into. Big obscuring purple blobs is definitely not what we're going for here. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Thank you. I just want to add (again) that I have the exact same issue as vfb, and I also run Linux with the latest version of flash plugin.

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My suggestion to the website admin would be to use a "sniffer" script, to check what OS the client is using. If they are using Linux, then have the script disable the ad.

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Browser/OS detection is no solution. Then we're back to designing web sites for each browser individually like it has been the practice over 5 years back.

Funny seeing that here. I think these type of Pagepeel-ads have become famous since the german "AK Vorratsdatenspeicherung" used it to sensitize the german-speaking population about the upcoming laws on storage of communication data. They used a CSS-solution to put it in the top right corner (click for demo) and made Wiki sites explaining how to put it on your own site:
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Online-Demo
http://wiki.helge.at/Einbauanleitung (austrian version which adapted the concept)

This lead to a boom of these page peels over all the german-centered web sites.

There is no real Flash support for Linux. The only thing that's there is an outdated flash plugin which is proven to be buggy and leading to the most browser crashes. The only flash plugins that are supported by Adobe are for Windows/Mac, I think.

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I have ActiveX deactivated most of the time. It helps a lot against annoying ads.

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The Flash code seems to be working just fine in Opera 9.26, but the ad is so unobtrusive that I never saw any reason to mouseover it until I saw this thread.

Telling me to "click here" without giving any indication why I should do it just makes me paranoid.

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Alright the "click here" ad was a little annoying yet tolerable.


Now... at the top of the forums they've added a "This Months Specials". This has pushed down the forums for reading. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

What's next mandatory pop-ups??

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How about a floating ad that you cannot close? Those are really nice http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I finally just turned off JavaScript to get rid of the "click here" crap loading up in the center of the screen. Rather inconvenient to have to flip it back and forth in order to use the post / reply editing tools.

(Web bumper sticker: Make pop-tarts not pop-ups!) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The "Forum Announcements" notice has been there for over a year. This is just the first one I've seen that was more than one line.

(You can also set your preferences to automatically jump to the first new post in the thread, so scrolling down shouldn't even be an issue.)

While we're still on the subject, now if I accidentally mouseover the "curled corner", I'm occasionally seeing it peel back to reveal a duplicate image of the current page, rather than an ad. (Still in Opera 9.26)

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I am using IE and have a slightly different problem. I will click on a link in the forum, then move the mouse up to the top right corner to minimize. I tend to read a page, then go back to something else, then back to a page, then back to something else.

Anyway, if I mouse over the click here part, the page curls down. However, the link I clicked on gets cancelled. I have to be careful now to minimize the page, without mousing over that area, right up near the minimize button.

Shrapnel has every right to have ads. It is just that this one annoys rather than makes me interested. Shame, as the add is a nice shot and for a quality product.