NaterGator
On Gilligan's Island
This is a (mostly) minor annoyance I have while using the site on my Droid.
When the following banner comes up:
And I click anything on the page below it on my droid (any link, or really anywhere literally below but not left of it) it "clicks" the amazon ad instead.
I pulled up the source and it looks like it uses an IFRAME with the height specified correctly, but upon looking at the source in the IFRAME there is an imagemap area tag defined for the banner:
<AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000"
Thus it seems to place an imagemap that extends from it's iframe origin all the way to 10,000 pixels below and right of the image. Most of the time this covers the rest of the page including subsequent pages in a thread, links directly to the last post, etc thus when you click in that region you hit the imagemap and are taken to the ad.
A minor annoyance and really a compounding of two bugs: the ad should not specify its imagemap like that and the android browser should not render it with such a high z-index and especially out of the boundaries of its iframe. I am also submitting a bug report to the android developers so they know about it and can hopefully fix it in a later release. I doubt you will have any recourse with this as it is hosted and served by amazon, woodmister. Just throwing out the heads up.
---Nate
EDIT: Testing, link to the ad source:
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ihco-2...ive&banner=1Y5GNARHWSEWA940B702&f=ifr
When the following banner comes up:
And I click anything on the page below it on my droid (any link, or really anywhere literally below but not left of it) it "clicks" the amazon ad instead.
I pulled up the source and it looks like it uses an IFRAME with the height specified correctly, but upon looking at the source in the IFRAME there is an imagemap area tag defined for the banner:
<AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000"
Thus it seems to place an imagemap that extends from it's iframe origin all the way to 10,000 pixels below and right of the image. Most of the time this covers the rest of the page including subsequent pages in a thread, links directly to the last post, etc thus when you click in that region you hit the imagemap and are taken to the ad.
A minor annoyance and really a compounding of two bugs: the ad should not specify its imagemap like that and the android browser should not render it with such a high z-index and especially out of the boundaries of its iframe. I am also submitting a bug report to the android developers so they know about it and can hopefully fix it in a later release. I doubt you will have any recourse with this as it is hosted and served by amazon, woodmister. Just throwing out the heads up.
---Nate
EDIT: Testing, link to the ad source:
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ihco-2...ive&banner=1Y5GNARHWSEWA940B702&f=ifr
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