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    Strange and annoying

    Just had a very strange thing, I presume it was an ad.

    A white and blue circle appeared at the botm of the page and followed it when I scrolled, it was for some sort of Survey site. I didn't read it properly, but then it timed out and disapeared.

    It's not the sort of thing people like on hear, so I hope it isn't a regular occurance.

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    AFAIK we've not commissioned anything like that so perhaps it was a stray 3rd party ad. If it doesn't happen again I'd assume it was an anomaly
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    Re: Strange and annoying

    Cool, i wouldn't expect you to have commissioned that, but thought I would raise it just in case.

    I'll look out for it, and get more details it it appears again.

    These PCs are pretty clean of junk and heavily monitored, so it shouldn't be anything lurking in the background.

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    It appeared again. It's Flash.

    It's by safecount.net and gives my this URL when clicked:

    http://amch.questionmarket.com/surveyf/?survey_server=survey.questionmarket.com&survey_num=707141&site=5&code=708522&lang=&frame=&dl_logo=& invite=no&link=http%3A//forums.hexus.net/general-discussion/180520-buying-gold.html%23post1869338&orig=http%3A//forums.hexus.net/general-discussion/180520-buying-gold.html%23post1869338

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    I just got one here. I killed it too quickly to read it propoerly but it appeared to be a 'floating' flash advcert for Orange networks.
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    And again !
    Society's to blame,
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    Re: Strange and annoying

    Totally off topic but relevant to the screen cap.

    I've been trying to fix characters not displaying properly on various articles - more so here than anywhere else.

    I thought it was a Firefox issue but it seems its doing it in IE too - The two question marks either side of Buy and Try - what are they meant to be and why don't they display properly?
    |Kata: "Read title as 'fisting'. Not sure why I clicked. Relieved, really."|
    |TAKTAK: "It was so small that mine wouldn't fit into it"|

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    I'm trying to get that ad to display so I can work out where it's from, but I'm struggling :S

    Still, I'm a little closer to figuring it out, thank you.
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    Re: Strange and annoying

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    The two question marks either side of Buy and Try - what are they meant to be and why don't they display properly?
    Opening and closing single quotes:

    ‘Buy and Try’

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    I've been trying to fix characters not displaying properly on various articles - more so here than anywhere else.
    HEXUS.channel has been messed up since day one when it comes to character encoding

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    It's an encoding issue when stuff from the main site gets posted into the forum. One I've resolved in development but haven't rolled out as it's not exactly a critical issue
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    $s->sarcasm()->intellect()->font('Courier New')->display(); 

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    To know it's being worked on is more than enough for me - your efforts are appreciated as always.
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    Re: Strange and annoying

    Just got Funkstars blue circle one appear on this page.
    http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22338
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    It's an encoding issue when stuff from the main site gets posted into the forum. One I've resolved in development but haven't rolled out as it's not exactly a critical issue
    I thought it was something like that.

    ISO-8859-1 & UTF-8 clash by any chance?

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    And another...
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: Strange and annoying

    Oooh, lovely.

    I'm going to be making some significant changes tomorrow, all being well, so let's see what happens then.
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