Because a patch would brake compatility with it's own defacto standard? Maybe it was harder than they thought to patch this and keep all the features they want.
Simply filtering out all javascript from a site probably wont help you much. Of course you will get rid of the "popup", but it will most likely remove more functionality, like menus for instance.
I belive these popups are primarily made with and
tags, fixed to a specific position via css. In those cases you could probably filter out tags, with a certain "class" attribute, but it would still be _much_ more difficult to get rid of them.
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Because a patch would brake compatility with it's own defacto standard? Maybe it was harder than they thought to patch this and keep all the features they want.
Simply filtering out all javascript from a site probably wont help you much. Of course you will get rid of the "popup", but it will most likely remove more functionality, like menus for instance. I belive these popups are primarily made with and tags, fixed to a specific position via css. In those cases you could probably filter out tags, with a certain "class" attribute, but it would still be _much_ more difficult to get rid of them.