[Flashblock] Request to make Flashblock with better with Adblock

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Philip Chee wrote:
> There have been several requests to make Flashblock work more
> smoothly with Adblock. This is certainly something we all would
> like to do. Unfortunately none of the Flashblock developers use
> Adblock and none of us understand how Adblock works in detail.

Just thinking: does adblock simply set "display: none;" on the content 
it blocks? If so, when generating a placeholder we could simply check if 
the underlying element has display: none and if so not show the placeholder.

This of course assumes that adblock does its magic before we do, but 
there might be a chance of that working since we create the placeholder 
on a timeout and not in the XBL constructor.

My level of pain is getting high enough that I might even install 
adblock to see how this works...


Cheers,
Lorenzo

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Lorenzo Colitti                          http://www.colitti.com/lorenzo/