Dave Howorth said the following on 01/06/2012 06:54 AM:
Even if that's so it may well buqqer-up your page payout/rendering. better to have a guaranteed "blank" page: FUD. It doesn't cause problems in real-life use, and since you couldn't get it to work, you don't use it and don't know! :-P
I'm not claiming its so for *all* pages but there are ones that do get buqqered up if you simply time-out access to embedded adverts rather than use the AdBlock technique of removing the screen real-estate they occupy. My point being there are some perverse page/css/layout designers out there. I've seen many rococo pages that could have been done with a fraction the effort, the amount of css/JavaScript. Just as some manager seem to measure productivity by the volume of code their programmers produce rather than what it does, I suspect some immature web page designers think they are being more productive, smarter, whatever, by producing voluminous and unstable (and often unportable) web page designs. As you say, YMMV.
Yes, adverts in email? Many messages are in HTML You let HTML messages display???? I'm really surprised. Still, horses for courses, YMMV etc.
In case you haven't noticed my occasional DotSigBlock: /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML EMAIL / \ AND POSTINGS No, I don't display HTML and don't partake, but sadly many people I deal with do, even when I ask them not to. I explain the pointlessness of it, the risks and how its so often used to trick people into going to sites other than the ons they think they are going to visit, variations on phishing and all the rest, but they still persist. One guy, working at a school board, claims that its 'corporate standard' because they need to be able to display large fonts. Yes, that doesn't make sense to me either, but he insists it does and it is. Given my druthers, I set up clients with DNS level blocking as well as using AdBlock and the DNS blocking includes an update for known malware sites, so even if they do succumb to the idiocies of phishing etc etc etc And yes I know its playing catch-up after the fact but then so is the AV software that their corporate auditors and their PCI:DSS auditors insist they use. -- Intruder Alert Black channels of unknown song Whisper through your walls -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org