212260 - ohmynews.com - uses proprietary JS to control Flash popup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[era174]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

It's impossible to close the Flash pop-up window. I can close it in Opera and
Internet Explorer by clicking on the CLOSE icon. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

JavaScript console shows:
Error: document.all has no properties
Source File:
http://www.ohmynews.com/reader_opinion/opinion_view.asp?menu=s10400&no=96489&rel%5Fno=15&code=3669&page=1&back%5Furl=article%5Fview%2Easp%3Fmenu%3Ds10400%26no%3D96489%26rel%255Fno%3D15&isSerial=true&character=03&serial%5Fname=
Line: 803

source http://ad.ohmynews.com/javascript/sdu_fx.js shows document.all is used to
hide the Flash ad, which can only work on IE (and Opera which unfortunately
implements document.all):
[...]
document.write ('document.all["FloatLayer1"].style.visibility="hidden"; \n');
[...]

Propose to move to Tech Evangelism.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

->TE

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Don't forget to reassign the default owner...

Comment 4

[lohphat]

Is this the same thing?

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3202536&section=news/

Comment 5

[Saikat]

Although I couldn't see the flash popup on the specified page (actually I
couldn't see anything there as I didn't have the required fonts either), the
description fits the behaviour of another site. 

http://www.indiatimes.com

Untill recently this site was using popup windows for advertisements, which
firebird was quite effective in controlling. Now it has started to popup flash
windows on top of the contents in the browser. In IE, I can click on "close
window" link on the flash, and it closes. But in Firebird, it never closes.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The page doesn't exist anymore.
When going to the home page there is ads with flash pop up which can be closed.