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Title: Different Browsers ...... Different Advertisements
Post by: sandbox on December 11, 2003, 12:50:57 AM

While doing an overview of browsers I had the occasion to have three opened at the same time to this page http://www.lowendmac.com/practical/03/0408.html only to discover that each browser had a different Macally AD flashing before my i-i’s.

Internet Explorer 5.1.7
iCab 2.9.7
Netscape 4.75

I didn’t know that they did that and I’m not quite sure why?  
But imagine the confusion

Title: Different Browsers ...... Different Advertisements
Post by: Diana on December 11, 2003, 09:54:40 AM

Maybe Macally is testing the value of several different ads to see which are most effective?...maybe based on which get clicked the most after they appear? Lowendmac is probably just rotating through all the ads and sending them to browsers in the order they are arriving at the site. Try reloading each browser to see if the ads rotate/change each time you "visit".

If you're feeling mean, you could click on several or only the ones you dislike.  

Title: Different Browsers ...... Different Advertisements
Post by: bobw on December 11, 2003, 12:26:14 PM

You could have just one browser open with one page and keep refreshing and you would get a different ad each time the page refreshed, or three windows of the same browser open, and you would have different ads on each page. Each time a page is opened, regardless of what browser, a different ad appears. That's the way it's supposed to work.

Title: Different Browsers ...... Different Advertisements
Post by: sandbox on December 11, 2003, 01:43:39 PM

I refreshed each one, and each one maintained the same ad. It took me by surprise!
I wouldn’t have guessed that a browser would be used to target a certain retail demographic, but maybe that’s what it’s coming to?

Diana, I tried Modzilla 1.3.1 last night and it worked in one bank but not another, looking for a certificate. It also tweaked my web page, expanding the page way past the limits set in IE, even more so than Netscape. iCap did a bit better in the web page department.

Each browser presents the TS site differently, oddly in some cases. When I get some time I'll post photos on how some distort the banner. In one case the banner table raps around the text/links below it, in Modzilla the page scrolls horizontally and does not fit the screen. I wrote Jane’s web site front page so it fits a 800x600 rev screen without any scroll bars, it works here on 2- 17 inchers, and a 15 inch monitor, but if I use another browser the limits change, the Browser frames are thicker, and start lower on the monitor even with the favorites bar reduced. Modzilla actually moves a line and link distorting the layout beyond reason. The text size doubles, pushing everything to the right and down, where on IE, both Mac and PC it displays front and center.

To compromise I would need to reduce the size of everything including text which would be displayed as 9 point on IE and a definite strain on the old iBalls.

Title: Different Browsers ...... Different Advertisements
Post by: Diana on December 11, 2003, 02:58:00 PM

I for one love these comparative experiments with browsers. I know that the range of differences here is somewhat limited to what the various Mac OSes can run, but it's fun anyway.

If you would, maybe post Jane's website here and I'll run my version of Mozilla over there and see what it does..

seeya,


PS...sounds like the lowendmac people know _exactly_ who you are  and they have you targeted...