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statictype on Nov 5, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Daring Fireball: Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and...

um, all he's saying is that we should wait for animated ads to show up in HTML5 and see what they are like before deciding how to disable them or even if it's required to do so.

tomlin on Nov 5, 2010 [–]

We don't need to wait to see. We all know that advertisers will demand horrible HTML5 ads. Pretending they won't is embarrassingly hopeful.

beej71 on Nov 5, 2010 | [–]

Indeed, I've already seen them.

Here's a short writeup of how one of them worked:

http://www.google.com/reader/item/tag:google.com,2005:reader...

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