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Web community develops “CBC weather box blocker”

Redesigning a web site, especially one with as many eyeballs as CBC.ca gets, isn’t easy. You’ll never please all the people all the time. And while most reviews of the latest redesign have been positive, one bone of contention heard is about the weather-box in the upper-left corner. Presumably the designers wanted something there to balance out the ad.

Now, an anonymous Vancouver programmer (not me!) has developed a tool to remove it from the site — well, to remove your ability to see it.

Some people using the Firefox web browser can download an extension to block advertising which, on the CBC site, makes the weather box hang in mid-air taking up valuable screen real estate.

The weather-box blocker is being promoted in Usenet newsgroups and on the popular social-news web site Digg.com.

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One Response to “Web community develops “CBC weather box blocker””

Adam Clarkson says:

One of the reasons we built the site to web standards was to enable interaction with the content in this way. This kind of thing is actually really encouraging for us. It means that people are enthusiastic about the content (aside from the weather that is), and that they’re interested in improving it. This is the spirit of the web. Tell the underground Vancouver programming community to keep it coming.
PS - we’re going to be adding some new features to this box in the near future. So prepare to un-hide.

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