Posted by Ben C on 08/06/07 15:24

On 2007-08-06, lester psigal <lesterpsigal@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
[...]
>> I tried an example, you can look at the source, it should be quite
>> simple. Don't know if it works in IE but Firefox should be OK.
>>
>> http://www.tidraso.co.uk/misc/popup.html
>
> thanks for the coding example, works perfectly with my browser
> (firefox). surely there are pages out there which are abusing such
> capabilities for their aggressive advertising campaigns (as usually)

Probably, but if a page is too annoying people just stop reading it so
that aggressive approach can easily backfire.

> but i think it's not a bad thing on its own.
> there are cases where it could be very useful to have
> such dynamic popups not opening in a separate browser windows, for
> example i'm planning to implement those popups for help functionality on
> form fields.

I don't see why not, although you should bear in mind that some people
turn off JavaScript or even get it stripped out by their firewall.

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