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Help me figure this out, please.

Bruce Perens
Wed Jul 30 22:15:00 -0700 2008
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Once in a while, while using Firefox 2 or 3, I see that the google ads and the technocrat login or story list frames have their contents exchanged. Is there something wrong in the HTML I'm writing? If it's a Firefox bug, why is it intermittent and is there a way to make it more reproducable?

Help me figure this out, please.
mengel
Thu Jul 31 07:44:27 -0700 2008
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Hmm... Are the contents exchanged, or are the positions of the elements changed?  The javascript that google is using could be flopping the position of the ad on the page...

I'm not seeing this problem much that I've noticed, but you could use Firebug when you see it to check what element is where...

Help me figure this out, please.
Simon
Thu Jul 31 14:41:15 -0700 2008
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You have adverts? Oh allows Google Syndication temporarily in NoScript.

Yeap that broke the iframe arrangement I now have two copies of the iframe with "Login" and "Forgot Password" and the list of articles is at the top. Yuck.

Guess that suggests it is Javascript ;)

I saw Google's "show ad" script break other pages in weird and wonderful ways, so I'm guessing it is the likely culprit.

I'm also getting Location.toString permission denied displayed in Firebug, probably some cross site scripting failing, so that may well indicate where it is going wrong.

Help me figure this out, please.
Bruce Perens
Thu Jul 31 17:36:08 -0700 2008
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Location.toString I think could be coming from Flash ads. Macromedia has a bulletin about it but I don't know what I'm supposed to do about it, since they aren't my ads and presumably aren't sending to my site.

I'll have to install Firebug.

Help me figure this out, please.
Uncle Entity
Fri Aug 01 18:09:23 -0700 2008
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I saved and diffed the html from a working page and one that showed the 'session' frame twice and they were identical.

 

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