Comments on: More on Amazon Links

By: NRT

NRT — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:41:56 +0000

Just to clarify:

* I said Firefox *with Adblock installed*, not ‘out-of-the-box’ Firefox. Adblock is one of the most popular extensions (I’d call it essential!), so a fair number of people are likely to be affected.

* Yes, this is the expected result of using Adblock, but I just wanted to make you aware of it. Personally, I stick with inline Amazon links, rather than sidebars, etc.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:36:24 +0000

Never mind guitar solos, what about drum solos? Surely the whole idea of CDs was that we could have longer drum solos?

By: Martyn Read

Martyn Read — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:01:12 +0000

Note to self….must get new Coldplay album…
Not that i’m against a guitar solo or two (or 12 minutes worth) mind…

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:19:20 +0000

Chris – Coldplay are boring, whiny and dull, without enough guitar solos or mellotrons.

I do plan to put some additional content in the right-hand sidebar, so anti-commerce freeloaders don’t see a blank column.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:40:56 +0000

Looks good in Firefox to me. The colours look fine to me but then again I am colour blind! Just prog rock? No links to Coldplay?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:54:31 +0000

Ministry – What Steve Jones said!

I’m considering having the sidebar the same colour as the main content column – http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/newindex.shtml shows what it looks like.

Steve: A depressingly large number of railway books don’t have images available. I wanted to have Siviter’s “Taunton West”, but Amazon can’t be arsed to scan the cover of that one! The Maurice Dart book was one of the few that did.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:11:27 +0000

Surely not seeing the adverts if you’re using Adblock is exactly what you’d expect?

I’m typing/viewing this using Firefox and I can see the adverts just fine. Unfortunately Maurice Dart’s “China Clay Trains In Shadow”? Recommended? You’ve been on the *other* white powder )))))))))))

By: NRT

NRT — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:00:55 +0000

For a moment I was wondering what you were talking about, then I realised something you probably ought to know: Those using Firefox and the Adblock extension don’t see the Amazon content, so that column is empty.

The sidebar displays okay in (ugh!) Internet Explorer.