RE: Symantec's ad remover removes valid-xhtml image

Hi,

No I haven't contacted Symantec about this, and I don't think I will either.

As I said in my second e-mail about this, the ad blocker seem to strip all
images with width and height attributes set to 31 and 88 (I assume this is a
standard dimension for ads), but I circumvent it by using a style rule for
this instead (or I could just drop the width and height attributes
altogether). Later on I noticed the same thing at several other sites, in my
search for "powered by" logos.

I just wanted to inform you about this bug since I thought you were affected
by it, but I see now that this ad blocker must do so in error for a lot of
sites. I'll leave it at this.

Best Regards,

  Peter Albertsson

-----Original Message-----
From: olivier Thereaux [mailto:ot@w3.org] 
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:30 AM
To: Peter Albertsson
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: Re: Symantecs ad remover removes valid-xhtml image

Hello Peter,

On Mar 26, 2005, at 4:22, Peter Albertsson wrote:
> I was quite confused when the <img> tag was removed when viewing the 
> page.
> Eventually I found out that it was Symantec’s ad blocker/remover that
> removed it.

The "valid" icons aren't ads, so if this tool removes them as such, 
it's broken, and unfortunately there's little we can do about it. Have 
you contacted this tool's vendor about this bug?

Thank you,
-- 
olivier

Received on Saturday, 26 March 2005 02:38:51 UTC