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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, June 04, 2004

Top O' The Pops

This c|net News.com article describes how Internet advertisers are using new forms of online ads to defeat pop-up blockers. Unfortunately, as is usual when News.com tries to explain too much, they get some things wrong. Example:
Blocking software typically suppresses a new window. It detects a command known as "openwin" for opening a new window, which would be written into the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) of a Web page.
"openwin" is not part of the XHTML or even the legacy HTML specifications. It's also nowhere to be found in JavaScript/ECMAScript. The latter do contain a window.open method, which may be encapsulated in a user-defined "openwin" function, but that is a long way from being an HTML command as the article describes.
In any event, the panicky sense of the article doesn't affect me in the slightest. Why? Because I use the best ad blocker on the market today: Ad Muncher. It seamlessly and effortlessly handles all forms of pop-ups, pop-unders, floaters, and all the other garbage the advertising execs bragged about in the c|net article. At $25 (with a 30-day trial) it's well worth it in saved bandwidth alone. No, I'm not affiliated with Ad Muncher, just a very happy customer.
|| Andrew, 10:25 AM || ||

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