[pchelpers] Re: Several interesting articles

Hi John,

Monday, March 28, 2005, 2:04:16 PM, you wrote:

JD> Thankyou for looking it over more carefully. I must get out of the habit
JD> of scanning over articles too quickly. So much of the useful detail is
JD> missed that way. It's an easy habit to get into when daily email climbs
JD> into the hundreds. The intellitext links were the ones commented on here.

JD> If I read you right, you got different results with different browsers.
JD> Doesn't this suggest the browser itself is programmed with links that
JD> automatically pop up on certain key words (whether the links are in the
JD> web page code or not)? If so, then this may be an example of people
JD> paying browser writers to link certain words in any site to their 
JD> advertising pages. This kind of thing has come up before on the web
JD> where advertisers can get visitors from any website by planting them in
JD> the browser. Webmasters have little or no control over that (webmaster
JD> gritting teeth here) :-(  I got this result with Firefox 1.0.2.

If you view the source, and look at the very bottom, you see this:

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<!-- start BURST! Media IntelliTXT Tooltip style sheet -->
<STYLE type="text/css">
.iTt{
    FONT-FAMILY:       Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
    FONT-SIZE:         11px;
    FONT-STYLE:        normal;
    FONT-WEIGHT:       normal;
    COLOR:             black;
    BACKGROUND-COLOR:  lightyellow;
    BORDER:            black 1px solid;
    PADDING:           2px;
}
</STYLE>
<!-- end BURST! Media IntelliTXT style sheet -->
<!-- start BURST! Media IntelliTXT script section -->
<SCRIPT language="javascript" 
src="http://text.burstnet.com/intellitxt/front.asp?IPID=1114&MK=15&FG=ORANGE";></SCRIPT>

<!-- end BURST! Media IntelliTXT script section -->

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In this case, it's definitely put in by the page author.  the "other"
browser was Firefox, which apparently doesn't support such a thing,
which is presumably non-standard.  I'm not seeing any of the
intellitext links with FF 1.0.1. (haven't restarted computer yet, so
no 1.0.2 yet).

-- 
Scott.




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