[wp-testers] TinyMCE - AdBlock Collision

[Robert Deaton]

On 12/6/05, Roy Schestowitz <wp-lowtraffic at schestowitz.com> wrote:
> Choosing to ignore AdBlock is risky. That'd be an (admittedly poor) equiv-
> alent  of  Firefox ignoring <bgsound> because it's not  standardised.  The
> newsgroups are filled with users who whine about Firefox, which refuses to
> play some silly tune in their Web page.

This is really a terrible analogy. Newsgroups are also filled with
people who complain that IE does not support a whole host of features
supported in multiple other browsers in the first place, but here is
not the place to argue that. The lesson here is that we should not be
adapting to something that you purposely broke. Reguardless of your
opinion, the fact remains that adblock breaks the web, refusing to
display images or other bits of code that would normally be displayed,
and we should not try to work around something you broke.

Instead, let the Adblock devs fix it.

Here is the offending code:
img[src*="/adv"]

Here is an easy way to fix it
img[src*="/advert"]

Still matches adverts, advertise, advertisements, etc. Voila, problem solved.

>
> Roy
>
> AdBlock: embrace, extend, and extinguish.

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--Robert Deaton
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