Rather than simply showing up on the page, ads have to be HTML-coded to appear on a certain part of the browser window. These web pages are also highly scripted, reaching out to various other servers that dish up the ads. When your browser status bar is displaying "waiting for..." or "transferring data from...", that is likely a script at work. Technicians at gardenWeb write the code and script. Advertisers merely submit their graphics and text. Incessant browser upgrade versions and the moving target of coding standards make designing web pages more art than science.

I emailed GW yesterday and have had two responses already today. I am impressed! Kim PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINE IN ANY RESPONSE: GardenWeb mail response mc1713221917072ec rosa Hi Kim, If you place your mouse on the link you want to view and right click on it, a small menu will pop up and you can choose 'open in a new tab'. The page should open in the new tab without encountering the script error. Not an optimum fix, but it works! Best regards, Tamara >To: editor@gardenweb.com >Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:50:02 -0400 (EDT) >Subject: Re: COMMENT: long running script > >Thank you, Compatibility View was discovered in the thread on GW and is >working on IE. Unfortunately, I prefer Firefox and am unable to use Firefox >with GW until the script error is corrected. Might you please know of a fix >for Firefox in the short term? > >Thank you for your response. I greatly appreciate it! Kim > > >In a message dated 3/19/2012 1:35:55 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >editor@gardenweb.com writes: > >PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINE IN ANY RESPONSE: >GardenWeb mail response mc1635541912546ec rosa > >Kim, > >I am sorry you are having difficulty in using the site. We are aware of >the problem and are working to correct it. > >In the meantime, if you are using Internet Explorer to access the site, >you can use Compatibility View to stop this error from happening. At the top >of your browser, in the address bar, there is a small icon that looks like >a torn piece of paper -- it's called Compatibility View. If you click on >that icon, it should stop the error message. > >Let me know if you continue to have problems. > >Sincerely, > >GardenWeb Staff > >>To: editor@gardenweb.com >>Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:52:55 >>Subject: COMMENT: long running script > >>[This message originated at GardenWeb] >> >>Hello, >> >>There is a problem with your site, Gardenweb.com with a long running >>script. You will find a thread on the Roses forum about it. I'm sure >you've had >>other notices about it. Nothing I've been able to do corrects it on any >>browser I use. It locks up both my Mozilla Firefox (latest version, >updated >>automatically) as well as my IE 9, Windows 7. >> >>I frequently visit the Roses and Antique Roses forums on GW, but this >issue >>will keep me from going there until it's fixed. Please address it ASAP as >>it's causing grief for many of your regular users. >> >>Thank you, >> >>Kim Rupert >> >> > >

I've about HAD IT around here guys! I haven't posted since the NEW & OBNOXIOUS advertising showed up right in the middle of the list of threads---AND---it started showing up right along with the replies in each thread--as if it was another reply! I think I may have finally hit my NO MORE limit! To me the ad in the middle of the list of threads put an automatic STOP on looking down the threads, and, I at least, was finding myself looking ONLY at the half a dozen threads ABOVE the advertising and never making it past the ad to the threads below it. I had posted above, in my reply to MamaSylvia, that you could "easily" just glance down the list of threads to check the dates and such, and with the ad in the middle that is in NO way easy to do anymore. ENOUGH! There are already BIG FlAsHiNg ads ALL OVER the place---not to mention the obnoxious IN-TEXT ads that you need to either take the time to "disable" or you risk ACCIDENTALLY mousing over them and suddenly having a BIG obnoxious box pop up that blocks what you're trying to read! Advertising is one thing, but iV seems, EVERY TIME, to come up with the most OBNOXIOUS and INTRUSIVE stuff in existence! I said above that when something like this happens we all rant about it and then "get over it," but if the "new" ads don't Go Away, I don't think I'm gonna get over this one! Having that ad breaking up the "flow" of the threads is just TOO intrusive as far as I'm concerned! Many of you probably don't remember this, but right after iV took over there were banner ads that couldn't be described as anything but por_ography!!! They had the "P-word" image flashing all over the top of the site! It was only when people started opting out and they weren't getting their CLICKS anymore that that garbage went away! They can post all the Garbage Advertising they want, but if the site isn't getting enough hits it's not doing them any good! NOW, having just said all that, I just pulled up the main RMG page on a separate screen--and for "right now" the New Nasty seems to be gone! I suspect it must have had something to do with the "script loading" problems many of you seem to have been having. I googled that and, yes, there are rants all over GW about it! There's no way they can try to stick all this Obnoxious Garbage in a site with such Obsolete Software and expect it to keep working! They want to just keep milking $$$ out of all the goodwill there is around here between the Gardeners who have come to know and like each other---without spending a penny on updating the site! I'm not having the "script" problem, and from the info on the search page below it looks like it's browser dependent. I use Safari, and that somehow seems to evade it! There are suggestions on some of the linked threads about how to TRY to stop it---but in my opinion, WE should not be the ones that are trying to fix it! Hopefully, with the disappearance of the new Obnoxious Advertising, the script loading problem will be fixed for all browsers, but I am still just about up to the hilt here! Even took some time trying to figure out if I could somehow start a separate forum JUST for Rocky Mountain Gardeners! With my feeble knowledge of computers, I'm not sure that's even a pipe dream, but I am TOTALLY fed up with this place right now--and if the "new ads" come back I may be gone! Skybird Here is a link that might be useful: GW script loading problems

You can do the script debugging.