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The relatively recent proliferation of slideshows and carousels on so many website home pages (particularly those using Wordpress as their CMS) annoy me more than anything else on-line. Few things piss me off as quickly as a page that keeps changing its main images on me -- particularly if they look like they're cycling from one side to the other.

I would LOVE it if NS could be set to block slideshows or carousels, whether they are using Flash, Shockwave, JSP or anything else. Can anyone advise a way to get NS (or any other freeware) to permanently block all such irritations?

Thanks in advance!

Noscript is a JS(+Flash/Java) blocker, and will thus block all that by default on untrusted sites.

However, specifically blocking those carousels is hard to do (and not done by any software I know of).

URLs to these "carousels"?

http://xkcd.com/1264/

Not really, but it illustrates the problem.

ETA: I was joking.

That's an animated GIF?
And an ESC still stops that?
(Though I think FF was talking about zapping that "feature", which perhaps was actually a bug, ESC causing the stoppage of animated GIFs?)

therube wrote:URLs to these "carousels"?

Here are but a few of these damned things:

http://www.entyce-creative.com/

http://www.bluelounge.com/

http://www.ghosthorses.co.uk/

therube wrote:That's an animated GIF?
And an ESC still stops that?
(Though I think FF was talking about zapping that "feature", which perhaps was actually a bug, ESC causing the stoppage of animated GIFs?)

No, it's not animated GIFs that I'm talking about; it's JSP slideshows. They're located server-side.

Anyone able to help?

I couldn't be sure, but it looks like entyce-creative relies on CSS, which NoScript will not block (it's not really a security risk in Firefox).

Couldn't see any carousel happening with JavaScript blocked at bluelounge?

ghosthorses probably uses CSS too.

Thrawn wrote:I couldn't be sure, but it looks like entyce-creative relies on CSS, which NoScript will not block (it's not really a security risk in Firefox).

Thrawn wrote:ghosthorses probably uses CSS too.

I understand that they both use CSS (anything that has "class" tags means CSS is being used, right?) but the fact that they both have similar coding for their main frames that run slideshows makes me wonder what can be done to disable those things.

Here's Entyce's coding: <div id="page" class="hfeed"><div class="showcaseSlidesWrapper"><ul class="showcaseSlides"> <li class="showcaseSlide showcaseSlide1062">...

Here's GhostHorses': <!--HOME BANNER SCREENSHOT SLIDER WRAP--><div id="home-banner-screenshot-slider-wrap"class="flex-container"><!--HOME BANNER SCREENSHOT SLIDER--><div id="home-banner-screenshot-slider"><!--IMG SLIDES--><ul class="slides clearfix"><li><img src="http://www.ghosthorses.co.uk/wp-content ... orses6/img...

(I presume those are the relevant sections of code)

Thrawn wrote:Couldn't see any carousel happening with JavaScript blocked at bluelounge?

Well, the slideshow works when I disable NoScript, which is kind of my point. Looking at the page source for BlueLounge, the code for the main frame begins <div class="pagecontent regular"><div id="homeslides" class="bottom20 cycle-slideshow" data-cycle-fx="scrollHorz" data-cycle-pause-on-hover="true"... , so it seems to be using CSS to run a slideshow that's affected by Javascript, right?

What I really want is to *not* have to block every instance of Javascript on every page, just those that operate these carousels/slideshows. It's a drag to have to manually disable NS every time I load a new page, when that page doesn't have a slideshow/carousel. All I want is something that will block them, not everything.

Thanks for your input!

You could disable "Styles" in the browser.
Or use bookmarklets.
But more often then not that is likely to do too much.

Then there is other code that may be able to stop the animations, but not sure if it would be needed to be in the page CSS code itself or if that could be done with a bookmarklet?

https://daneden.me/animate/

Disable stylesheets

Disable CSS Bookmarklet

How to pause and resume CSS3 animation using JavaScript?

CSS Animations