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Click through being blocked by the popup blocker

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Hi,

An issue has been reported where the IE popup blocker seems to be blocking the click through URL on linear and non-linear ads.

Safari, Opera and Firefox seem ok.

Upon investigation, this seems particularly true when "wmode" is explicitly set on the player.

The underlying cause of this issue was that OVA has been using the AS3 call "navigateToURL()" to load up the click through URL in a new window.

For IE, a Javascript callout to "window.load()" should be used - this seems to get around the popup blocker issue.

A fix has been created - a check is now done on the browser type - if IE can be determined "window.load" is now used (given that ExternalInterface.available is also true).

The fix has been checked into the OVA developer repository (check out the latest version on the OVA developer site - http://developer.longtailvideo.com/ova).

The versions with this fix are as follows:

OVA for Flowplayer - v0.6.0 RC3 (build 140)
OVA for AS3 v0.6.0 RC3 (build 122)
OVA for JW 4.x - v0.5.0 RC3 (build 82)
OVA for JW 5.x - v0.5.0 RC3 (build 141)

Paul

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