XHTML compliant Text Ads?

Google AdSense code is a complete nightmare

[JAB Creations]

I'd like to place ads on my site for Internet Explorer as an added incentive to promote standards. However after looking at their code I've decided it completely goes against the merits that I've built my site upon. Don't get me started on 54KB script file (twice the size of my site's total bandwidth on first page loads) loaded within the body element in XHTML using document.write and innerHTML! This isn't going to work on my XHTML page served as application/xhtml+xml...and no don't even dream about telling me to compromise the quality of my work!

So then I looked at Yahoo's page and clicked to sign up; waiting...waiting...waiting...

The page won't load! So I loaded up Internet Explorer and sure enough the page loads!

Is there a text ad service that doesn't slap me in the face <snip> for having a standards compliant website?

- John

[edited by: caveman at 8:31 pm (utc) on Oct. 1, 2008]
[edit reason] Removed inappropriate language per TOS [/edit]

[londrum]

at the end of the day people don't care how your page is coded. all they care about is the end result.
99.99999 percent of them wont even know that you're serving it as application/xhtml+xml. (unless you've got a particular reason to be doing it). i got caught on that tide too. i had my XHTML site serving xml headers, and it made me feel good inside... made me feel like i was finally doing it "correct". but then i switched to HTML and i bet you a million pounds that not one single visitor noticed any difference.

[JAB Creations]

and no don't even dream about telling me to compromise the quality of my work!

[SuzyUK]

Bingo Londrum!

and no don't even dream about telling me to compromise the quality of my work!

Your standards may not be industry standards (and I'm not talking W3C industry) - if you want to be able to take some small benefit from the well established WEB Advertising Industry, you may very well have to compromise, cutting off your nose to spite your face will not benefit anyone, you or your readers Accessibility has more than one meaning!

btw, and as a friendly heads up - I've *never* been able to view your site in anything but IE (yes it may well be because of my prefs.. but they are MY prefs and I've not yet come across the same problem on any other site, 3 years give or take a year) So it makes me wonder if the nose-cutting thing isn't already happening?

your reliable text-ads services will have stipulations if you can't meld to them you are probaly left trying to sell your own ad spaces where you are the one who stipulates ad-size placement etc.. you need to have a really really popular site for that to happen, and if that's your site then perhaps that's the answer?

and FWIW, I wouldn't notice if you changed to HTML tomorrow I still wouldn't be able to view