Monday, May 9, 2011

The Mysterious Large Blue Banner at EPJ

An EPJ reader from a major investment bank (and there really is only one major investment bank) writes:

I frequently read your site and I’ve noticed that there is always a large blue banner that covers up the top of the website and causes me to be unable to read the first article. I wanted to make you aware of this in hopes that it can be fixed.

Thanks and I really enjoy reading your site.
Is any one else seeing this blue banner? Or is the banner just another way for this bank to expand the way it does God's work?
at 10:15:00 AM

10 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM

    Its probably a java script that is being prevented from running by the bank's firewall or content filter. If they didn't want employees to read EPJ, the would just block the site all together.

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  2. AnonymousMay 9, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    I've never seen this blue banner on any device I use to read your site.

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  3. Pete MMay 9, 2011 at 10:52 AM

    I get the same at work here in the UK on Internet Explorer, a plain blue patch covering the top six inches or so of the screen. At home using Firefox there's no patch.

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  4. AkshayeMay 9, 2011 at 10:53 AM

    My guess is that this person is reading your blog from work and his IT department blocks certain content so he sees a blue block where your title banner should be. I get it too at work and it blocks the first few lines.

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  5. Chris ClarkMay 9, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    I too really enjoy reading your site, but I've never seen a large powder blue banner obscuring the first article.

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  6. NickMay 9, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    I've only seen it once, the night the news of bin Laden's death broke. I assumed it was the website getting confused at how rapidly you were updating things.

    If someone's seeing it all the time, then I would guess it's the work of a Javascript blocker.

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  7. AnonymousMay 9, 2011 at 12:35 PM

    negative on big blue

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  8. MJMay 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM

    I have seen it when using IE behind some kinda content blocker I also really enjoy the site

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  9. AnonymousMay 9, 2011 at 1:59 PM

    I was getting an error last week consistently from Adobe Flash (I run Chrome browser on OS X) telling me that a "dangerous operation" had been detected and shut down. If I wanted to allow it to go though, I should change my settings. I think that happens on certain ads that redirect to other sites. This could be related to what others are seeing.

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  10. AnonymousMay 10, 2011 at 4:28 PM

    I use Chrome and have never had any issues with this.

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