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Hi Len, Len said: This opens up a larger issue. The problem with ads is that they may or may not be part of the document content. The author should choose to enable or disable additional functionality imposed over access to the document content, but not to the document site. That is, Gator style ads are legal even if not under the control of the author. What are the user's rights? Didier replies: Off course this is an important issue but which cannot be controlled by CSS nor XSLT. However, since some browsers are opened to extension, it is also obvious that the "greed factor" will attract less scrupulous individuals or corpora. Seen from a different angle, browser extensions modifying the layout (i.e. inject ads into downloaded documents) without the consent of the client or the author is quite disturbing and should call the attention of the FDC. Especially, if the users downloading such programs are not aware of the impact. The FDC should impose the same rules as the ones imposed to future brokers and force the programs publisher to explicitly say that installing such program will modify the content received from the web and that advertising will be included in such documents. I doubt that after being warned, the users will download these programs. But until the FDC react to that matter of facts (count a good lag time :-), some sites already posted counter actions and tools to correct the situation. Now, even the author can prevent the published pages to be modified by scamwares. To make things worse, some of these scamware cannot be easily or totally uninstalled. Again, some sites are providing ways to remove this crap. ------------------------------------------------------------- Didier PH Martin http://didier-martin.com OpenJade Project http://dsssl.netfolder.com Coming soon.... http://xml.netfolder.com Coming soon.... http://blog.didier-martin.com -------------------------------------------------------------
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