Why Train is Running long-running Script for?? It slow my Computer.

[mvlandsw]

I've been having the long running script problem with this forum and the Trains News Wire site for some time now.

[BaltACD]

I am not having the Script problem - to my knowledge, however - 

When the RAV 4 video commercial appears on the right hand side of the screen - it SNAPS the screen for it to be seen - no matter if one wants to read data that is above or below the ad position on the screen.  Disturbing!

This is happening on the computer version of Chrome.

[Overmod]

I might add, for the sake of any tech people who might be in a position to fix this, that one of the most irritating issues with the deflicted mobile codebase is related to screen resizing (at least on iPhones from 4s to 7).

The most immediate illustration of the problem is that either in landscape or portrait rotation, presence of either a long clickable URL or a signature of any particular size expands the effective right-hand margin of the window containing the post -- however, the viewport on the device does not expand and the text in the expanded window does not 'wrap'.  If we could resize the window with the usual haptics, this would merely be irritating, but all that this does on iPhones is to resize the cut-off section ... the point of which I have yet to figure out.

Now the 'normal' way I get around this is to hit 'reply', which neatly puts all the text in properly-wrapped form.  Here is where the second programming disaster shows up: the control buttons do not follow the visible frame, but are right-justified in the expanded page, which for any particular 'extension' puts the reply button completely outside the accessible part of the page (!!!) without the ability to pan or scan to access even the barest edge of it to click.

Now I understand and sympathize with the basic idea expressed by Mr. Otte of MR that tech resources have to be applied to revenue-generating ideas before they go to 'free' forums.  But I have now suffered through months and months of malformed ad code 'sneaking' through inadvertent oversight or naive API implementation by someone coding for Kalmbach, and surely even the dullest of Bangalore contract programmers will eventually figure out how to patch this stuff.

[Semper Vaporo]

The "poor coding" is proabably NOT someone at Kalmbach... it is probably at some advertisers site that is contracting with Kalmbach to fetch advertising content from their site to appear on pages called from Kalmbach's site. All Kalmbach has in their control is the URL that is inserted into the Kalmbach code that references the advertiser's site.  It is the advertiser's site that determines what advertisment appears on your screen and how it does it.

[Euclid]

Overmod

Now I understand and sympathize with the basic idea expressed by Mr. Otte of MR that tech resources have to be applied to revenue-generating ideas before they go to 'free' forums.

Free forums don't generate any revenue?

[Overmod]

Semper Vaporo

The "poor coding" is proabably NOT someone at Kalmbach... it is probably at some advertisers site that is contracting with Kalmbach to fetch advertising content from their site to appear on pages called from Kalmbach's site.

It is correct that the malformed code is advertisers and not Kalmbach.  The problem I have with the Kalmbach programmers is that they do not code any safeguards against malformed code (or pop-up scams, or data harvesting), and the problem I have with Kalmbach marketing is that they continue to stream code from advertisers that demonstrably repeat 'conveniently' malformed or hackable code through the interfaces Kalmbach provides them.

[erikem]

Home Green Gardens ads seem to be a problem, had a few crop up on my last session and had to force quit FireFox from the activity monitor (kill -9 from a terminal would work as well) when the beach ball sarted showing up and activity monitor was showing 2+GB!!! of Real memory usage.

[GN_Fan]

"Long running script" is the politically correct way of saying that the advertisements, auto-load videos, and other junk has to load and appear before you can do anything.  It really isn't a problem for me on the Trains website, but places like Facebook where a video of some chicken pecking at the groud has to play completely thru before you can skip it, any on-line news article from Reuters to CNN that are loaded with ads, or any website that has pop-up ads or pop-up websites is extremely irritating to me.  Sometimes the ads take so long to load that I close the article entirely because it's not worth the wait.

The REALLY irritating ones are (1) read the headline and one line of the article on your news feed, then (2) if you want to read more click here, which gives you the same headline and 1st sentence, plus the 2nd sentence, then (3) if you REALLY want to read the article, click here.  Each time you click you have to wait for at least a dozen ads to load, only to find out it's just a teaser to get you to click again for more ads. So in the end you have 3 tabs open for one news article and dozens of ads trying to get you to buy things that you don't want and don't need.  I'm glad Trains does not subscribe to this crap.

 

[GERALD L MCFARLANE JR]

Ads, video's...slow long running scripts.  I have no clue what you people are talking about, but then again, W10 with Chrome and AdBlocker Plus might have something to do with it...and any site that insists I White List or turn off my ad blocker becomes persona non grata in my book...I will refuse to visit a site like that again...ever.

[Electroliner 1935]

Got two computers, an old Gateway still running XP and Chrome and a new HP running W10 and Chrome and so far have had no problems with trains.com. Just had to replace two Samsung S4's when they literally died.