Posted by mark | r on 06/30/05 12:07

"Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Michael Winter wrote:
>
> >> Who says it is for advertising? I see a lot more reasons to use a
> >> popup window than advertising.
> > Yes, there are many reasonable uses for them, but abuse has all but
> > killed the pop-up, whether it is legitimate or not.
>
> You will find no argument on that point. MOST popups are unwanted and
> unneeded

name one use that cant be done better in AJAX
the issue is opening a new browser window - this is just wrong, all plain
and unapologetyically wrong - use AJAX to give inline feedback, provide live
updates of data, expand and collapse blocks of helpful content and/or extra
options based on user feedback

mark

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