Nov
01
2005

No, Page 2 Please!

Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - 11:34:58 pm
(Posted Under: Geek)
While looking for a information on using javascript and the rel attribute in anchor tags to open links in a new window, the Web Standards way, I came across a Site Point page, with an interest quirk...

I read through page one, and clicked to go to page 2. Err, page 2. Page 2 please! Rather than taking me to page 2 of the article, clicking the link instead continually brought up a pop-up window, for a free download of Dreamweaver. As tempting as that might be, I would just like to read page 2! [wink]

It took a while, figuring at first that the pop-up was a clickthrough, I worked out what was going on.

Site Point ImageTabbing around, it became obvious that the Dreamweaver ad at the bottom of the page has a higher z-index that the text on the page, and while it looked like you're clicking the href'ed '2', the click is actually being caught by the Dreamweave image. Closing Firefox's search toolbar moved the image down, and made the page anchor clickable. Interesting quirk though.

While I have no doubt that this is just an overlooked quirk on Sitepoint's webpage, however I wonder how long this is used for evil.
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