Flash disaster

[Sherlock]

The codes of live odds banners marked as flash changed. It seems they in Chrome as preview inside of affiliate interface, show only for a while, then they disappear.

[universal4]

Thanks for bumping this Sherlock as it is an important thread for a lot of folks.

I saw the email they had some new banners out but have not had a chance to investigate it.

The email says

We now have a preliminary fix available for use of the live odds banners. The fix will display live odds banners on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, but will continue to serve the .gif banners until a fix for Chrome versions 45 and up is finalised next week.

I just took a look at the banners available and saw hundreds and hundreds all in flash so it appears they are not releasing any html5 stuff. On every page that contains odds banners it states

These Banners are only available in Flash

I am trying not to be too critical and maybe they can in fact get a workaround for the flash files, but I hope they understand that it may be temporary since the push to stop supporting flash will likely continue.

Since a lot of the code for interactive creatives uses iframes, they may well already be using html5, and if they are I would think they should make note of that on the pages as that would reduce confusion as to what was flash and what wasn't.

Rick
Universal4

[Sherlock]

Yes I got the same email.

Idk what happens, but the banners in "flash" section definitely have new codes. The old flash banners had much longer code. So I was thinking those are html5 banners placed under flash section of affiliate interface, but did not ask my IT guys to confirm.

Maybe it is not html5, but for sure those codes (what you find now under flash) are the new codes. And they do not work too well.

[wonderpunter]

They are just iframe banners.. slow to load and as i can see they don't work with Chrome.. only on preview.. Chrome has a large chunk of desktop but most importantly.. quite a few andorid users use chrome HTML5 banners will start with <script>

[Sherlock]

If they really are just iframe banners then it is exactly what I did not want, because then I would have to switch them all again.

[Stephen_A]

Hi,

Just wanted to clarify a couple of points for you on this matter.

In regards to the issue with the fix not displaying in Chrome, this is correct. The preliminary fix that we have put in place displays live odds banners on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, but will continue to serve the .gif banners for Chrome versions 45 and up until a fix is finalised for this browser.

The temporary fix that has been put in place means that the banners do display in an iframe, but when we change the code over to html5 you will not need to make any amendments if you use the code currently available in the affiliate system as they will automatically update.

Thanks,

Steve

Stephen Appleton
Performance Marketing Manager
bet365.com

[universal4]

Sorry, but part of your statement can NOT be correct and is inaccurate.

I have placed the iframe code on MY WEBSITES, how do you expect to change the code on MY WEBSITES?

The code on my sites will continue to be the iframe code until such time as I CHANGE IT! No matter what you change on your servers, the iframe code placed on hundreds (if not thousands) of your affiliates' sites can not change unless they change it and will continue to show in an iframe.

I do not personally have an issue with showing the code in an iframe, and the changes on your side can change from showing gifs to html5, but for those that do NOT want to use iframe codes, they will have no choice but to change the code later.

Rick
Universal4

[TheGooner]

As I can see the code it's a simple source of an aspx file.

eg.

<iframe src="http://imstore.365sbaffiliates.com/grm_1448-608-5-6-149-1-4045.aspx" width="468" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
</iframe>

This code obviously runs flash for some browser types, and loads a GIF file for chrome. So it should be relatively easy for Bet365 to modify the code within the aspx file to pull in an HTML5 command for chrome ...

That would mean that Stephen is correct when he said -

The temporary fix that has been put in place means that the banners do display in an iframe, but when we change the code over to html5 you will not need to make any amendments if you use the code currently available in the affiliate system as they will automatically update.

The new code will pull the HTML5 banner (instead of a static gif) within the iframe.

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Of course - IF you don't want to use IFRAMES (why?) then you have a problem - but you would not have posted the initial code.

I am not aware of any performance issues OR SE issues with an Iframe banner? Indeed the nature of a boundary defined Iframe is that the frame size is fully defined so that the browser can render the rest of the page very quickly without accessing the code - because it knows the exact size of the internal frame and can build around it.

It seems a pragmatic and well phased solution for affiliates - or is there something else that I've missed?

[gamblingdomains]

flash is dead. Always get warnings on sites using any type of flash