Internet Explorer Issue Solved at Adgitize

Posted by kexbrown on April 3, 2009

If you are using IE7 or Internet Explorer to click on ads within the Adgitize Ad Network, I think you will find the experience more fun.

Huge Problem Resolved

I didn’t realize there was a problem until last week and I received an email from Girly Anti-Geek. She was struggling with this whole get points for clicking advertiser’s ads within Adgitize. I didn’t know what the problem was, it worked for me.

Well it turns out that The Girly Anti-Geek was using IE7. I was using FireFox. When I dug into the issue a little closer she was absolutely correct. It didn’t work the way it was supposed to in IE7. Now the good news is she wasn’t losing points. It was just a painful experience for her to click on the ads.

When a member clicks on an ad the green banner at the bottom changes to blue. After the member clicks on 5 ads then it changes to read, “Adgitize 5″. As the member progresses through the different advertisers, the label keeps changing and the number continues to progress until we run out of advertisers or reach 100 points.

Well, you all know we use iFrames. Apparently, IE7 has a system that allows iFrames to talk to the parent page nicely. We needed to change our code so IE7 allowed the iFrames to communicate their status better.

What Do You Have to Do?

Now it works. What do you have to do? It is best if you log out of Adgitize and log back in. Only if you use Internet Explorer. (If you use any of the other browsers, everything is okay.) Once you log back in everything should begin to display correctly. If you have any problems just let us know and we will try to help you.

If you choose not to log out at this time, that is okay. We automatically log you out in a couple of days and when you log back in everything will be fine.

For those people that were using Internet Explorer, God Bless you for putting up with the way this functioned for you. Wow, you are special people. I hope you like the new system better. Let me know if you see problems. Special thanks to Girly Anti-Geek for bringing this issue to my attention and being patient with me while I tried to figure out what the problem was.