Intersitials, again...

I have a slow enough connection (especially when at work...) that I seldom see the whole intersitial ad before I click the link and move on to the real page. But today I clicked on "Forums" and then had to do something else. When I got back to the computer a moment later I was *lost*. This beautiful ad had come up, which looks a lot like a splash page for some web site. It took me a moment to figure out what had happened, then I clicked through to the forum page.

It occurred to me that the one problem with the intersitial page is that there is nothing on the page to indicate that you're still looking at CoasterBuzz. Shouldn't the little guy with the big mouth be on that page someplace? I figure if the same graphic that appears on every other CoasterBuzz page were up there, it wouldn't take any time to load, but it would give that indication that the sponsor whose ad you're watching is sponsoring CoasterBuzz...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Who, oddly enough, finds those ads to be a lot less annoying than pop-ups...

As I've mentioned before, Dave, I have zero control over the way the interstital page appears. To make it idiot-proof for Web jockeys, they host everything.

Also, it must be yet another Safari issue (does anything in that browser work?), because in every other browser I've tried, it shows a little ten second countdown with the URL of where you're headed before sending you on your way or you click the "skip" button.

Or you can join the club and never see an ad again. :)

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Actually, I was using Opera at the time, and yes, it gets the countdown with the URL. Safari gets the countdown as well, but for some reason the URL gets munged (the host name gets hacked off).

Not knowing how the interaction works with Burst (apart from the fact that the connection between them and OARNet must be on wet spaghetti) I figured CoasterBuzz had to call the page, and therefore ought to be able to display the Burst code as an include on its own page............Or something like that.

Just proves that I DON'T know everything... :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.