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    Menu's hiding behind ads

    When I'm viewing the Hexus homepage the drop down menu's have a habit of hiding behind the ads. This happens with IE7(.0.6000.16575) & Opera 9(.24 Build 8816). No idea if this is just me or not, but it happens in both browsers.
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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    Doesn't happen for me in IE 7

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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    Or me in FF

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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    On my FF v3 beta2 the adds disappear when a drop down menu is selected.
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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    Quote Originally Posted by nvening View Post
    On my FF v3 beta2 the adds disappear when a drop down menu is selected.
    same here using SeaMonkey 1.1.7

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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    It sometimes happens for a brief period when the banner ad is updated.

    Let us know if it's still happening though as the page is coded for the drop down to go over the ad or for the ad to disappear when the drop down is activated.
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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    It does appear to be an intermittent problem when viewing the site with IE7; I've not tested with other browsers.

    Sometimes the top banner advert disappears when the menu is active and reappears when inactive. Sometimes the ad comes back too soon but is at a lower depth than the menu, or reappears too soon over the menu. In either case, the advert to the left isn't affected, meaning it's always above the menu preventing me from selecting it's items.

    I actually can't remember the last time I was able to use the menu successfully and as a result haven't bothered playing with it until spotting this thread.
    My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?

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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    It depends if the flash control is trusted, i.e. the first time a new flash control is loaded IE7 requires you to click on it to acivate it then click on it to visit. From what I have found if the flash is not trusted by the user through the first click then IE7 will treat it like a background image...

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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    Quote Originally Posted by MD View Post
    It depends if the flash control is trusted, i.e. the first time a new flash control is loaded IE7 requires you to click on it to acivate it then click on it to visit. From what I have found if the flash is not trusted by the user through the first click then IE7 will treat it like a background image...
    I'm not entirely sure if I've understood you correctly, so apologies if I haven't

    The whole "click to activate" is related to the browser, or more specifically IE (Eolas v Microsoft, and soon to be rectified thankfully), interpreting the embed/object tags, which these ads do not appear to be using; perhaps they're using something akin to SWFObject to allow for click-through? If it were a "click to activate" issue there would also been an outline surrounding the object along with a tooltip prompting the user to active.

    It just seems more like a z-indexing issue to me.
    My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?

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    scaryjim: 10" is just a little large to hold comfortably in one hand, which makes it a lot harder to tap, swipe and generally interact with.

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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    It's z-indexing to a certain extent. All flash movies take the highest z-index value, developers have no control over that.There is a flash parameter called wmode that can be set to transparent but a) it doesnt always work and b) it relies on the creator of the flash movie setting certain things up in the movie background and for adverts we're not the creator.

    To get round the above there are two options
    1) put the ads in iframes. I'm not even going to discuss how bad an idea that would be
    2) put the ads in named divs and have them hide when the menu is opened

    We have code in place that does number 2 but as Matt indicates we sometimes see problems with untrusted flash ads. In short, Flash is a royal pain and we've implemented the most user friendly workaround we could think of. We're always improving so we'll continue to look at it but we do more than most to try and solve the problems Flash movies bring.

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    Re: Menu's hiding behind ads

    I don't think it's a trust issue as if it were, like I said before, there'd be a warning thrown by IE relating to the fact that an untrusted object was present. As that's not the case and the intended solution works in FF, it appears more an IE bug?

    Looking at it closer, those two DIVs containing the ads are being controlled by showHideDiv on the first attempt, but any subsequent attempts appear to be ignored. It'd be interesting to see if it is actually the SWFs causing the problem in IE, in otherwords would it still happen if those SWFs were substituted for the GIFs used in the noscript code?

    Damn, I don't envy you for one minute and certainly appreciate your efforts. Debugging browsers is a right royal pain
    My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?

    0iD: Plus weeing in it every now & again does it good
    scaryjim: 10" is just a little large to hold comfortably in one hand, which makes it a lot harder to tap, swipe and generally interact with.

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