Comments on: When good online Ads go bad http://www.fusionbay.com/2007/06/12/when-good-online-ads-go-bad/ Web application technologies and development Mon, 12 May 2008 02:29:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Andy Stratton http://www.fusionbay.com/2007/06/12/when-good-online-ads-go-bad/#comment-140 Andy Stratton Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:07:13 +0000 http://www.fusionbay.com/2007/06/12/when-good-online-ads-go-bad/#comment-140 This is horrible, I don't think applications/plug-ins such as flash should have the capability to extend beyond their HTML object/element bounds EVER. This is something that affected my user experience on MySpace (which is already a bad experience to begin with) when a T-Mobile SideKick advertisement shot 20 spinning SideKick phones all over the browser viewport, causing the clickable area for the add to be nearly the entire screen, meaning anything I tried to click pushed me to T-Mobile's website for the SideKick... If anything this made me #1 hate T-Mobile and #2 dislike MySpace even more. This is horrible, I don’t think applications/plug-ins such as flash should have the capability to extend beyond their HTML object/element bounds EVER.

This is something that affected my user experience on MySpace (which is already a bad experience to begin with) when a T-Mobile SideKick advertisement shot 20 spinning SideKick phones all over the browser viewport, causing the clickable area for the add to be nearly the entire screen, meaning anything I tried to click pushed me to T-Mobile’s website for the SideKick…

If anything this made me #1 hate T-Mobile and #2 dislike MySpace even more.

]]> By: ChrisM http://www.fusionbay.com/2007/06/12/when-good-online-ads-go-bad/#comment-139 ChrisM Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:24:01 +0000 http://www.fusionbay.com/2007/06/12/when-good-online-ads-go-bad/#comment-139 I had a similar experience trying to publish a blog entry in myspace. A large ad for Telus, a Canadian cellphone provider would block out the subject field of the blog area and about half of the type-able area. When it came time to submit the blog it would be rejected as you hadn't specified a subject line. But you couldn't enter a subject as the field was blocked by the ad. The only solution was to cancel out of the screen and then re-enter hoping that the same ad didn't appear again. I had a similar experience trying to publish a blog entry in myspace. A large ad for Telus, a Canadian cellphone provider would block out the subject field of the blog area and about half of the type-able area. When it came time to submit the blog it would be rejected as you hadn’t specified a subject line. But you couldn’t enter a subject as the field was blocked by the ad. The only solution was to cancel out of the screen and then re-enter hoping that the same ad didn’t appear again.

]]> By: Campfire » Blog Archive » Wired apologizes for obnoxiously defective ad http://www.fusionbay.com/2007/06/12/when-good-online-ads-go-bad/#comment-138 Campfire » Blog Archive » Wired apologizes for obnoxiously defective ad Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:01:04 +0000 http://www.fusionbay.com/2007/06/12/when-good-online-ads-go-bad/#comment-138 [...] blocked the site’s content for 8 hours and generated hundred of complaints. Check out this screenshot of the defective AT&T monstrosity in [...] […] blocked the site’s content for 8 hours and generated hundred of complaints. Check out this screenshot of the defective AT&T monstrosity in […]

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