When will Safari be able to block these?

[AppleMatt]

Wonderful, as if the flash 'lets-take-over-your-whole-screen-for-as-long-as-we-can' ads, some bright spark has come up with these:

http://www.flyinads.com/

Safari will be able to block these in a similar way to popups (javascript), but the question is, who gets there first, Apple implementing a filter or these becoming common place?

AppleMatt

[for those interested]:

<script>function FlyInAd(){if(document.all)showModalDialog('http://www.FlyInAds.com/flyin.php?sample=1&serial=1053991131',window,'status:no; help:no');}</script>
<b><a href=javascript:; onclick=FlyInAd();>Click here to see a sample Fly-In Ad right now.</a></b>

[CubeHacker]

Mozilla/Firebird doesn't seem affected by these (the demonstration on that page didn't work), so I don't see them being a problem as long as you don't use IE.

[AppleMatt]

Yeah I'm on a PC at the moment (not at home), I haven't tried it with Safari yet, I'm assuming by the time it hits GM, everything will work.

AppleMatt

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by AppleMatt
Wonderful, as if the flash 'lets-take-over-your-whole-screen-for-as-long-as-we-can' ads, some bright spark has come up with these:

http://www.flyinads.com/

Safari will be able to block these in a similar way to popups (javascript), but the question is, who gets there first, Apple implementing a filter or these becoming common place?

AppleMatt

[for those interested]:

<script>function FlyInAd(){if(document.all)showModalDialog('http://www.FlyInAds.com/flyin.php?sample=1&serial=1053991131',window,'status:no; help:no');}</script>
<b><a href=javascript:; onclick=FlyInAd();>Click here to see a sample Fly-In Ad right now.</a></b>

I'm using safari right now, and it don't show anything when I click on anything at all.

[celaurie]

Originally posted by MrMacman
I'm using safari right now, and it don't show anything when I click on anything at all.

Hrm, I'm not seeing anything either. Nor have I ever come across anything like what was described...

[AppleMatt]

Interesting...Well I'm back home now and tried it with safari...nothing happened.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing, these aren't meant to be blocked like popups, so surely they should work, ie, is something wrong with safari's javascript.

AppleMatt

[F/reW/re]

Originally posted by AppleMatt
Interesting...Well I'm back home now and tried it with safari...nothing happened.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing, these aren't meant to be blocked like popups, so surely they should work, ie, is something wrong with safari's javascript.

AppleMatt
Perhaps bacause there aint no ad. Nothing in Explorer or Opera on windows xp.

[AppleMatt]

It does on mine, a box flies in from one side of the screen and shakes, then displays a message.

Check if Javascript is enabled, and it's the latest version.

AppleMatt

[Mr. Anderson]

The link they give is bad - the info I get on the link

Run Script ";"

Looks like they disabled the script.

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