Marco Leise píše v Po 09. 12. 2013 v 10:31 +0100:
> Am Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:33:33 +0100
> schrieb "Robert Nagel" <rcnagel@gmail.com>:
> 
> > I was browsing the site for the first time and I am put off somewhat by the use of advertisements on the bottom of the site pages. I understand that it can help to raise money but I feel it somewhat hurts the professional appearance of the site.
> > 
> > Didn't know where else to post this, just chipping in my few cents.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > P.S.: Here is just one example, look at the bottom. http://dlang.org/type.html
> 
> Looks like Opera doesn't understand that it should display ads. I've never seen any on dlang.org.
> 

In my case opera show this ads (12.16), but honestly I have never
noticed it until now

On 12/8/2013 9:18 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> I can confirm there existence on my home computers.

They aren't a secret. They are there on purpose, and have always been there, and help defray the site hosting fees.

I actually kind of like seeing what Google thinks are relevant ads for D :-)

I briefly tried Amazon context sensitive ads, hoping they would show ads for relevant programming books. Wouldn't that be cool? But most of the ads were for the latest Batman movie. Even worse, it would delay the page loading by up to 40 seconds. So I gave up and removed them.


As an aside, I recently bought a kitchen faucet. For weeks afterwards, I was bombarded on web pages by ads for that very same faucet from the same vendor. How many kitchens did they think I have? It was an epic fail of their (I don't know which company did the ad delivery) data mining ad delivery software.

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 09:14:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I actually kind of like seeing what Google thinks are relevant ads for D :-)

What about Sociomantic ? At least if the ads wouldn't be relevant, the advertiser would be. ;-)

On 9 December 2013 09:14, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 12/8/2013 9:18 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>
>> I can confirm there existence on my home computers.
>
>
> They aren't a secret. They are there on purpose, and have always been there, and help defray the site hosting fees.
>
> I actually kind of like seeing what Google thinks are relevant ads for D :-)
>
> I briefly tried Amazon context sensitive ads, hoping they would show ads for relevant programming books. Wouldn't that be cool? But most of the ads were for the latest Batman movie. Even worse, it would delay the page loading by up to 40 seconds. So I gave up and removed them.
>
>
> As an aside, I recently bought a kitchen faucet. For weeks afterwards, I was bombarded on web pages by ads for that very same faucet from the same vendor. How many kitchens did they think I have? It was an epic fail of their (I don't know which company did the ad delivery) data mining ad delivery software.

In my most recently departed job at a hosting company, we used to always get google adverts from competing companies, some of whom worked just two doors down in the University our office was based. ;-)

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 08:19:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Comment starts here, but inside the JavaScript block. I have no idea how browsers handle this:
> <script type="text/javascript"><!--
>
> JavaScript comment starts and ends here:
> /**/google_ad_client = "pub-5628673096434613";
>
> Comment ends here, but inside the JavaScript block and commented out using JavaScript:
> //--></script>

It's an old trick. The comment is a HTML comment to stop browsers that don't handle JavaScript from interpreting the JS code as HTML. The closing bracket is commented out because the JS interpreter fails when reading it. This is from back in the day when IE didn't handle JS only VBScript.

Yes, and as a benefit when you validate your xhtml code in w3c validator you do not have problem with expresions like a < b

Gary Willoughby píše v Po 09. 12. 2013 v 13:53 +0100:
> On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 08:19:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > Comment starts here, but inside the JavaScript block. I have no
> > idea how browsers handle this:
> > <script type="text/javascript"><!--
> >
> > JavaScript comment starts and ends here: /**/google_ad_client = "pub-5628673096434613";
> >
> > Comment ends here, but inside the JavaScript block and
> > commented out using JavaScript:
> > //--></script>
> 
> It's an old trick. The comment is a HTML comment to stop browsers that don't handle JavaScript from interpreting the JS code as HTML. The closing bracket is commented out because the JS interpreter fails when reading it. This is from back in the day when IE didn't handle JS only VBScript.

On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 01:14:17 -0800, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 12/8/2013 9:18 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> I can confirm there existence on my home computers.
>
> They aren't a secret. They are there on purpose, and have always been there, and help defray the site hosting fees.
>
> I actually kind of like seeing what Google thinks are relevant ads for D :-)
>
> I briefly tried Amazon context sensitive ads, hoping they would show ads for relevant programming books. Wouldn't that be cool? But most of the ads were for the latest Batman movie. Even worse, it would delay the page loading by up to 40 seconds. So I gave up and removed them.
>
>
> As an aside, I recently bought a kitchen faucet. For weeks afterwards, I was bombarded on web pages by ads for that very same faucet from the same vendor. How many kitchens did they think I have? It was an epic fail of their (I don't know which company did the ad delivery) data mining ad delivery software.

Oh I know that they are there on purpose. I was just confirming their existence to those who use ad-blockers. :-)

I also understand why they are there. But I also agree that it doesn't help the professionalism of the site. I was just throwing in my opinion, but we all know how much those are worth... :-)

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/

On 12/09/2013 04:14 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

> They aren't a secret. They are there on purpose, and have always been
> there, and help defray the site hosting fees.
>

I have now unblocked this website for ads, hoping it helps. I might as well click on them if there is anything interesting..

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 18:12:14 UTC, John J wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 04:14 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> They aren't a secret. They are there on purpose, and have always been
>> there, and help defray the site hosting fees.
>>
>
> I have now unblocked this website for ads, hoping it helps. I might as well click on them if there is anything interesting..

I've done the same

Am Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:53:00 +0100
schrieb Daniel Kozák <kozzi11@gmail.com>:

> Marco Leise píše v Po 09. 12. 2013 v 10:31 +0100:
> > Am Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:33:33 +0100
> > schrieb "Robert Nagel" <rcnagel@gmail.com>:
> > 
> > > I was browsing the site for the first time and I am put off somewhat by the use of advertisements on the bottom of the site pages. I understand that it can help to raise money but I feel it somewhat hurts the professional appearance of the site.
> > > 
> > > Didn't know where else to post this, just chipping in my few cents.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Rob
> > > 
> > > P.S.: Here is just one example, look at the bottom. http://dlang.org/type.html
> > 
> > Looks like Opera doesn't understand that it should display ads. I've never seen any on dlang.org.
> > 
> 
> In my case opera show this ads (12.16), but honestly I have never
> noticed it until now
> 

Oh my fault, I must have blocked
http:/*.googlesyndication.com/*
too long ago to remember it was filtered for dlang.org

-- 
Marco