Comments on: Cleaning Up Ad Server Scripts

By: Peanut Gallery

Peanut Gallery — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:28:38 +0000

@BillC I think you are mistaken.

Ghostwriter starts at 10,000k for one site (price not posted on their site, by the way), so he has 10,000 very good reasons, and he get a couple link backs to the site of which he is a “Partner”.

It’s not above board and speaks volume about the company’s ethics.

However, this article was great and its nice to see developers helping developers purely out of fraternity.

By: BillC

BillC — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:24:36 +0000

Thanks very much for this solution. I got the mandate today to implement this OAS code and when I looked at it, I felt like I it was the mid-90′s again. I used your solution and it’s working fine.

I want to respond to the post from Will Alexander. First, if you’re going to promote a paid service (ghostwriter) that you work for, you *have* to disclose it. Otherwise, it’s just free advertising and not above board.

Second, your comment about iframe may be valid, but this ad server does not use an iframe. It’s possible that a given implementation might use that HTML tag, but mine certainly does not. So, you’re spreading FUD for no good reason.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:42:01 +0000

@Wilf
I’m new to this… I assume when you implement this method, you are using jsx instead of mjx.
>> document.getElementById(‘ad_pos_1′).appendChild(document.getElementById(‘ad_1_hidden’));

if ad_pos_1 is the container where the ad should show up, what would ad_1_hidden mean here? Please let me know, I need to implement oas using jsx method.

By: Will Alexander

Will Alexander — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:07:55 +0000

I would strongly caution against the use of Willf’s suggestion to move the ads after they’ve been loaded — Gecko and WebKit will reload an iframe when it’s moved within the DOM. This is going to lead to double-counting and an increase in overall load times. http://digital-fulcrum.com/iframe-reloading-behavior/

Take a look at ghostwriter which provides asynchronous loading of scripts that use document.write. With it, you can post-load these ads pretty easily.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:51:18 +0000

As the “time-machine” is back with IPhones and Ipads… does this refinment to show only rich media still apply?