wide google ads?

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  1. Silverthorn

    Silverthorn Well-Known Member

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    Are the google ads that wide for everyone? Its pushing the right hand chart off the page for me.
     
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    What's your screen resolution setting? The ads are meant to resize based on your resolution - I might need to check the settings.

    Is it new behaviour or something that's always happened?
     
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    The resolution is 1440x900. Been happening for a while I think but I have the AUD silver price on the right and have been keeping an eye on it for the last few days.

    I'm using firefox 4.1.
     
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    Post a screenshot? The ads are the same width for everyone once you go over 1152 wide - I'm on 1400 wide with Firefox 4.0 and it's fine.
     
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    Its OK if I maximise I guess but I don't normally do that?

    [imgz=http://forums.silverstackers.com/uploads/258_screenie.png][​IMG][/imgz]

    edit.

    forgot I could swap the charts around. no biggie.
     
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    Ah - yeah, the width of the ads is based on your screen resolution, not your browser width.

    The ads from Google have different fixed widths - they won't dynamically resize. Smaller ads leave tons of whitespace in the chart strip.
     
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    Yes, because the ads are a fixed width. A quick "view code" of the page will show how it works.

    Yours is expected behaviour.
     
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    Maybe one more screen size in the js would be good if they have an extra ad size.
     
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    Nope - 728 is the widest they provide.

    I can put more ads there though if you promise to click on them :p
     
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    I clicked on the google free trial one. Do they pay for that? :)
     
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