Re: adblock extension not filtering backgrounds

Roland wrote:
> On 4-5-2005 7:03, Philip wrote:
> 
>> Roland wrote:
>>
>>> On 28-4-2005 22:14, Philip wrote:
>>>
>>>> Philip wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> DC wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Philip wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some annoying yahoo ads started to appear that I could not get 
>>>>>>> adblock to filter. It seems these graphics are tablbe backgrounds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a way to get adblock to zap these things too?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> URL?  I might have a solution but would like to try it first, 
>>>>>> before I
>>>>>> step on my, uh, thingy.  }:O)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It was one of Yahoo's ads. So it only appears sporatically. I wish 
>>>>> now that I
>>>>> had saved the page source.
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically you can try to jury rig it. The ad image is the 
>>>>> background attribute
>>>>> of a table. The table element(s) contains a transparent spacer.gif 
>>>>> that give the
>>>>> table size, but allow the background to show through.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I caught one of the ads on yahoo. Here is the offending html:
>>>>
>>>> <table width="728" height="90" border="0" cellspacing="0" 
>>>> cellpadding="0" 
>>>> background="http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals2/20050415_53485_v2_728x90_super_ypmiranda_w2m.jpg"> 
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You could add the following line to AdBlock (Tools -> AdBlock -> 
>>> Preferences; press label /Add/ to the right of the New Filter input 
>>> field):
>>>
>>> http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals*
>>>
>>
>> This does not work. The image is in the background attribute of the 
>> table and is not filtered.
> 
> AdBlock is capable of filtering background images (I've tried it with 
> IMDB's photo galleries, which also use a table background to display the 
> actual pictures).
> Did you include the trailing * in the AdBlock rule?
> Which version of AdBlock are you using (I'm using v0.5d2 Nightly build 39).

I have build 35

background="http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals2/20050415_53485_v2_728x90_super_ypmiranda_w2m.jpg"

Adblock Filters

http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/*
http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/*
http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_personals2/*

Still coming through