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November 27, 2007
Engadget ad problem?
Engadget ad problem? Hi, do you have any hard info on this story? I was doing post-holiday cleanup on some of the popular general weblogs, and see that Engadget had a problem last week with a particular advertisement, delivered as SWF. Key line for me is a rather superficial yet damaging one: "We've managed to patch things up by pulling the Flash and replacing it with something much more browser friendly." For their prior post they offered anti-SWF advice which was even less useful. From reading their text, I'm not sure what the actual problem was... it sounds like it was one particular misbehaving ad, and there's LOTS of ways to make a greedy SWF... high framerate, tight loops, big media demands... such abuse could be deadly on a webpage which is already pushing the edge. Did you see the particular "Apple ad" yourself, or do you have other info on what the core problem was? The only lead I have is recent conversation praising the snarky "Give Up On Vista" dual-SWF ad (video), but I don't see other sites reporting the same problem with the same ad. I want to make sure this problem is fully resolved, but don't see hard info in the text... do you know what the problem actually was? Thanks!
Posted by JohnDowdell at November 27, 2007 03:47 PM
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