Posted by Brian Cryer on 05/03/06 16:15

"arbpen" <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I am getting ready to make a new interface for the company's web site,
> <http://atlas.nextblock.com/files/>. It's a mess, markup and server
> side. I know that, hence, getting ready to make a new template.
>
> 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.
>
> The reason I am posting is because I would like to give my boss some
> kind of hard proof that people really don't like pop-ups, hard numbers
> from a survey or poll. My saying "but the are x-trillion pop-up blocker
> programs" does not work. Please understand, I am not asking this group
> to post likes and dislikes - I need opinions from Joe Average Internet
> User. Short of setting up a focus group, does anyone have links to
> such information?

If you need your website to be accessible (alka W3C website Accessibility)
then pop-ups are a definite no-no:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/, checkpoint 10.1 "Until user
agents allow users to turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or
other windows to appear and do not change the current window without
informing the user. [Priority 2] "

Hope it helps.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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