Text pointer flashes

Flash-banner changes the cursor blink rate

[Blackie]

I have a page with a flash ad on top served from another location. I also have a text input field on the same page.
When you put the cursor in this field you get a text pointer which usually blinks nice and slowly until you have the flash-ad on the screen. Then the cursor blink rate changes to something terrible with no pattern but fast enough to get my eyes killed.
If you scroll the add off the screen, the cursor starts blinking as usual.

Anybody have the answer why? And how to correct this problem?

/I also wonder if I found the reason why it is called a flash banner ;-)/

[Blackie]

Am I the first one with this kind of ###? :-)

[whoisgregg]

Perhaps this is unique to your OS/Browser configuration and is not exhibited on other browsers/OS/configurations? Have you done testing on other machines?

[Blackie]

I know for sure that the problem appears in IE, I'm showing another ads for those with Opera and FF so I don't know about other browsers.

For IE the problem appears on different machines with diferent OS, etc.

Any ideas?

[Blackie]

Somebody? :-)

[BlobFisk]

I'm afraid that this is something that I've never seen! Can you test whoisgreggs idea and display the same banner in different browsers to see if the same behaviour repeats?

[Blackie]

I can try, though it does not help me much, since this damn thing should be working in IE as well :(

[whoisgregg]

Testing in different browsers isn't just for finding out if those users will be problem free, it's also a valuable troubleshooting tool. Your task to determine the cause of the problem is to eliminate variables to isolate the exact cause. Maybe it's an out-of-date flash plug-in, maybe it's a browser bug, maybe it's an actionscript error in your coding.

Without trying different things to determine the cause, you're left making random changes hoping that one might work.