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3rd Party JavaScript

RequireJS and jQuery - A Journey in noConflict Mode

Being purveyors of 3rd-Party JavaScript, sandboxing is something near and dear to our hearts. We take integrating with our publishers seriously, aiming to ensure a high-quality experience for their engineers and most importantly their users. jQuery has noConflict() and you’re gold; easy enough,...

Engineering Team Lead, SFP
Software Engineer

jQuery Vs jQuery

During integration testing, one of our publishers recently reported that their Comments section didn’t work correctly after adding our tags. Nothing else seemed to be amiss, and our content was appearing and behaving correctly.

Shipping 3rd Party JavaScript comes with its own unique set of challenges...

Engineering Team Lead, Client

3rd Party JavaScript: Welcome to the Circle of Trust

For the last three years, we’ve been supplying our publishers with 3rd Party JavaScript to power native content distribution, helping them make a buck by providing non-interruptive, choice-based advertising. Our code is put on the publisher’s page directly, versus in an iframe (typically referred...

Engineering Team Lead, Client

Keep Your Friends Close and Your 3rd Parties Closer

As part of our viewer engagement tracking, we send back a umtime parameter (MDN: milliseconds since the epoch) to our tracking servers, http://.../?umtime=1375503164030&.... Timing allows us to tell a story around how viewers engage with our content, for example “Unfolded the card, watched a video...

VP of Engineering