Posted by kaston3 on 08/28/06 12:47

Well,

Being a designer a php developer I still think it is a monstruosity
essentially because they are trying to kill flies with cannon balls at
the expense of design beauty.

If as you say this is the result of some standarization meeting so the
monstruosity has shared responsibility but is still a bad thing.

At least, if there's an option to hide location the default should be
location=0 for pop-ups.

After years of evolution and with the help of Flash mainly, HTML has
improved its essential ugliness. Showing location in pop-ups (by
default or worse, by forcing visibility) is a major step back and it
renders the location option in javascript open.window useless

The URL usually contains code with variables that should be hidden (at
least by default). Interpreted languages are always behind compiled
languages and notably browsers' 'show source code' feature is
something designers never liked.

Malicious code should be handled in the background. I only hope that
Firefox 2.0 as usual does not surrenders to MS rules of the game.

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