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Re: A Popup! In Mozilla!
From: Dave King <dave () davewking com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:44:16 -0600
This isn't a normal "popup" in that it doesn't open a new browser window. All they're doing is placing this great animated gif over the middle of the page using absolute positioning in the DIV tag. Notice that it looks like an IE window even in Firefox. Really this is a sneaky trick that is pretty annoying. I think this type of ad placement is going to be hard to block since most of the time absolute positioning images is just part of the normal page and has nothing to do with ads, even though I guess at one time pop-ups were used legitimately almost exclusively. At least this page seems to be thoughtful enough to only display the ad the first time you visit it. Tricky little devils aren't they (and getting trickier all the time).
Dave King http://www.thesecure.net James Woodcock wrote:
This might seem like it should be going to a webdev list, but there's a possible security implication, so here goes;http://2-spyware.com/file-cnfrm-exe.htmlIn Mozilla 1.5 and FireFox 0.9 with the pop-up blocker turned on, I get a pop-up! It's purporting to be an important notice from my Network Administrator - you'll probably recognise it;http://2-spyware.com/images/2SPYRR1C.gifLooking at the source of the page, I see that the pop-up is being generated by a <DIV> statement that comes after the closing </html> tag which - I thought - was supposed to indicate the end of the document.Is a web browser supposed to be able to render code outside the <html></html> tags?Using IE 6.0.2800.1106, on viewing the source, I find that the DIV statement that followed the closing </html> tag is now the last statement BEFORE the </html> tag. What gives?James _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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Current thread:
- A Popup! In Mozilla! James Woodcock (Jul 20)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Duncan Hill (Jul 20)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Andrew Farmer (Jul 20)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Jesse Ruderman (Jul 21)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Xavier Beaudouin (Jul 21)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Dave King (Jul 21)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Charles Richmond (Jul 21)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! a (Jul 21)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Szilveszter Adam (Jul 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! John Dowling (Jul 21)
- RE: A Popup! In Mozilla! John Dowling (Jul 21)
- Re: A Popup! In Mozilla! Charles Richmond (Jul 21)