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Posted by Neredbojias on 05/04/06 12:33
To further the education of mankind, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> vouchsafed:
> In article
> <1146564731.053874.275020@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I find a popup calendar, or popup form to be very
>> convenient. That is because I am requesting them. I find the popup
>> ads on porn sites very annoying because I did not request them.
>
>> There is a HUGE difference...
>
> I agree a lot. I have spent the better part of a day ridding a
> section of a website of some ("requested") js pop ups in favour
> of normal links. Advantages, no js, easier to maintain in future
> (they are trickier beasts in the file system and require extra
> code and fiddlesome ' and " and ... you know...). But I am now
> thinking that it does not look or feel as nice as it did! The
> information was extra stuff, visual details of individual
> products, also the pop up window was a cleaner and simpler "fit"
> and helped the viewers not to lose their place... I might forget
> about it now and throw away half a day's work and restore the old
> pop ups. Damn! Decisions, decisions...
Why don't you make it elective? I've done it, and it's easy. Put a little
link somewhere with something like "target: same | new?" Doc-write the
link and have it set a variable to open (or not) a new window. Here's a
page I did long ago and just kept for nostalgic reasons with an example (-
You hafta let the page load fully):
http://www.neredbojias.com/delta/strozzi.html
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Neredbojias
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