Ads being cut off

when I increase text size in firefox

[Powdork]

When I increase text size in IE (View->Text Size->Larger) the Adsense text remains constant. In firefox (View->Text Size->Increase) it outgrows the adspace cutting off the bottom ads.

[mafew]

Ok, now decrease the font size. Problem fixed.

[Powdork]

Ok, now decrease the font size. Problem fixed.

Yeah, who cares about accessibility. Why should I care if a site that I took pains to make fluid looks broken to some people?
It is something they should be able to fix if they know about it. My understanding is they may know a guy who knows a guy on the mozilla project. Perhaps it has been mentioned before, perhaps not.

[jomaxx]

I just tried it and I can override the CSS text size specifications in Internet Explorer as well. You have to go into "Options/Accessibility".

AdSense blocks are not fluid. They are required to be a certain number of pixels high and wide. The only way to prevent display problems would be to prevent people from overriding the default text size. I'm not sure that's technically possible and I don't think it would be more desirable overall.

[Powdork]

I don't know if it is technically possible either, but I do think it would be desirable. Either they can't read the ads because the text is too small or they can't read the ads because the text is missing. I would prefer the former. It's probably a very minor deal but I just thought I would point out the difference in how its rendered by the two browsers.

[robho]

It's Firefox that's doing it correctly (enlarging the font when requested).

The fact that MSIE allows coders who specify fixed-font sizes (like Adsense) to override the user's wishes is annoying for those that like to (or need to) browse with larger fonts. Of course the side effect of putting variable-sized text in fixed-size box is trucated text.

The way round this would be for Adsense to offer a "text feed" (even RSS) of ads which we can then include on our pages within a flowing div or table. But they don't.

[jhood]

Who's to say that cutting off the last few words of an ad reduces CTR? It might help it. A smaller contextual ad program regularly runs ads that are cut off. When I was trying out this program on one of my sites, I noticed that CTR went up when the ads were cut off. Piqued the readers' curiosity, perhaps.

[mafew]

The way round this would be for Adsense to offer a "text feed" (even RSS) of ads which we can then include on our pages within a flowing div or table. But they don't.

I think this may become a reality one day, in response to ad blocking software. It seems to me the only way Google can get around ad blocking software is for the ads to be served as plain html served from the website's server, rather than whipping a bit of javascript up from Google's server.

[KiShOrE]

Adsense works just fine on my site if you visit using IE
But If you use firefox, the whole web page get messed .. all frames get broken. Still I couldn't fix it. Poor me!

[frox]

rather than whipping a bit of javascript up from Google's server.

I think that is not going to happen.
As discussed in this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]
the Google javscript is collecting a lot of interesting info about visitors. I think G cannot afford to stay without that.

[mafew]

the Google javscript is collecting a lot of interesting info about visitors. I think G cannot afford to stay without that.

Google makes money from click throughs on the ads it serves, not by collecting "interesting info."

I think it's AdWords revenue that Google can't afford to lose. I imagine that ad blocking will become increasingly prominent.