Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Too busy to click right now ...

Ken Jenks (MindsEye_at_tale.com)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:49:20 -0500 (CDT)

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"Beer, Dan" <beerd_at_scgmsnt.cmail.southam.ca> wrote:

>Hopefully, the bookmark function won't make it to Java Script... we'd
>have a bookmark for every site we visit.
>
>Another potentially dangerous combination of Java Script and advertising
>is the "onMouseOver" function. Imagine ads that took you to their
>destinations as soon as your mouse rolled over them.

I've seen worse. There are some porn sites which are using the JavaScript
onUnload event to link to another page, and it does the same to another
page, etc. So each time you try to close a window, another one pops up in
its place. And because MSIE 4.0 now brings you back even after reboot, the
only way out is to disable JavaScript.

JavaScript is too useful for everybody. If webmasters pull this kind of
crap, users will disable it, to the detriment of everyone.

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