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> (a) differentiate between requested and unrequested pop-up windows

I don't know why this is either. My best guess would be a limitation in the
Internet Explorer API or the way Web mail is designed (perhaps the onclick
event is handled in such a way that it doesn't appear to be triggered by the
user?). If it's the former, perhaps Microsoft will fix this with the
upgrade.

> (b) allow you to manage a whitelist of sites that will not be blocked

Most do. However, in a lot of circumstances, people don't even realize they
just installed a pop-up blocker because it's piggy-backed on another piece
of software. More often than not, they don't associate the pop-up blocker
they installed yesterday with the fact that Web mail is broken today. Even
if they are aware of all of this, they might not know this feature exists or
be able to change it themselves.

> I use Mozilla as my primary web (and mail) client and while I realize 
> instructing people to not use IE is futile, this free software has both 
> of the above capabilities.

Again, having the capabilities doesn't mean that user's will be able to use
them.

> As a web site developer, I feel I should remind the world from time to 
> time that pop-up windows are not all bad - they serve a valuable 
> function in many applications.

I agree wholeheartedly. However, like frames and many other useful
technologies, overuse and misapplication have pretty much killed them.

-ben


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