CIW – Vendor Neutral? Yes. Adblock-safe? No.
Posted on January 23, 2007, under Web Dev/Tech.
I was just sitting down to write a positive article about my recent Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) certification experience, and then I noticed their home page is messed up in Mozilla Firefox 2. Click the thumbnail to see the jacked-upness.
What’s the deal?? I sent them a message about it. They need to fix that like yesterday.
Update: After a little more testing, I found that the web site does display correctly in Firefox. The issue is with the Adblock Plus and Adblock Filterset.G Updater add-ons. When those extensions are enabled, the CIW home page becomes broken. Apparently the developers at CIW named some of their featured navigation area images file names like “ad01_start.jpg”. Adblock must see the “ad01″ part of the name, and block it out. That was a poor decision to name parts of their navigation as though they are external ads. Hopefully they change their naming scheme soon.
Update II: See the first comment below from Wladimir Palant, AdBlock Plus’s creator. The issue is with the Filterset.G subscription add-on, not with AdBlock Plus.
3 Replies to "CIW – Vendor Neutral? Yes. Adblock-safe? No."
jess on March 10, 2007
Thanks Wladimir! Very useful information. I have reinstalled AdBlock Plus without the Filterset.G addon, and reset my filters. Things look good..
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Wladimir Palant on March 10, 2007
I reported this false positive in the Filterset.G forum (http://filtersetg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5037#5037). In the meanwhile, you might want to read http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project#filterset.g