Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 01/22/65 11:46

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed JDS <jeffrey@example.invalid>
writing in news:pan.2006.05.02.13.22.57.292282@example.invalid:

> On Mon, 01 May 2006 13:31:49 -0700, arbpen wrote:
>
>> My boss likes pop-ups because, for her, it's simple to click the
>> little x and you're back on the page you were on - no back button
>> broken. My boss also likes animated ads. In making the new
>> template, I want to keep away from that.
>
> What are the popups being used for?
>
> If they are part of an interface for a web application, that is one
> thing. If they just contain unrequested ads and spam, that is quite
> another.
>

http://atlas.nextblock.com is a directory of stores, restarants and
services. The store descriptions open in little pop-up windows, and a
lot of hrefs use the target attribute, or BASE element. External links
always open in new windows.

I agree with what others have said about calendar widgets, and I would
not want to get rid of those. It's the ones that are unnecessary, the
external links, etc, that drive me nuts.

Maybe this is because I use mouse gestures, and therefore rarely look up
to see if the back button in available. It just gesture until I realize
something is wrong, look up, and realize I've been gesturing for no
reason.

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Adrienne Boswell
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