One of the discussions over at Jabootu right now is about online advertisements. For myself, I cannot figure out why companies keep making ads that are even more annoying than the last. Slashdot recently had a story on this:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/30/1752236&mode=threadIf you ever see an advertisement, other than a simple banner or button image, on the site - please let me know. I do not allow pop-ups or pop-unders, let alone the amazingly annoying types that actually cover parts of the screen.
Another funny thing is that it seems some readers using Internet Explorer are having problems with the sound and video clips. I have been able to replicate this with Windows 98, IE 6.0sp1, and Media Player 7.1. You cannot play the file from inside of Internet Explorer, though it does work fine if you save the file to the hard drive and then play it.
I have found the problem did not exist on NT 4.0 with Media Player 6.4, nor Windows 2000 with 7.1, nor Windows 98 with 6.4. Mozilla, Opera, and Netscape all work correctly. On the server end, the file is sent correctly. Maybe tweaking the MIME type could fix the problem, but talk about funky Microsoft stuff.
If anyone else has run into this problem, I would love to know the version of Windows, version of IE, and version of Media Player you are using.