Posted by Captain Dondo on 06/29/05 19:50

Adrienne wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Travis Newbury"
> <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> writing in news:1120051785.377218.129270
> @g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>>You know what would be a great browser feature? If the browser could
>>tell the web page if thee is a popup blocker running.
>>
>>The page opens, tests for the existance of the pop up blocker, and
>>takes the appropriate action with the links.
>>
>>Of course the "anti-popup for any reason" crowd won't think this would
>>be a cool feature...
>>
>
>
> The problem is that too many people have abused pop-ups that most
> blockers block everything. That can get annoying quickly when you want
> to download something and the ****ing blocker blocks your download, or
> you _want_ that little calendar widget to open so you can select some
> date four months from now.
>
> That's one of the reasons I really like Opera. I can open pop-ups I
> _want_, and I don't have to save a list of allowed servers.
>

I just spent a half-an-hour fighting with Seagate's new RMA website....
ARGHHH!!!!

First off, it checks browser versions, and if you don't have Netscape
7.0 or IE 5.5+ it won't work.... Forget Firefox.

OK, so I fire up IE. Now it wants me to turn off the popup blocker.
But the stupid 'turn on your popups' auto-forwards after a few seconds,
so it's a matter of dexterity: You have to hit that notification box on
IE and click on the extra toolbar *before* the bloody website
autoforwards and IE turns the popup bar off....

After all that, it doesn't use popups at all for anything useful; it
pops up a small box, then closes it with no user intervention, and then
it just uses forms.... WTF? Who designs a website that a) needs a
specific browser, aand b) needs popups just to fill out a form....

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