Another issue there of course is that there is no task bar in Mac OS, and that in WinXP separate windows for the same application no longer have separate task bar buttons, but are 'stacked' in a single application button. This further reduces any chance of universal comprehensibility with pop-up windows.
Compounding the annoyance and confusion they (pop-up windows) cause with back buttons and navigation, those of us who use and prefer tabbed browsing find that unexpected new windows are exactly that - new windows, not new tabs on the existing window, and all our existing tabs suddenly 'disappear'. I find this disconcerting, even as an experienced user and developer. Having said all that, I still occasionally use pop-up windows, but never full-screen, and only as an adjunct to the current site. For example, one of my sites for a musician includes a Flash-based audio player that opens (on a user-initiated click) in a small pop-up, allowing visitors to continue to load and listen to her songs, even after moving off to another site. Cheers, Kevin Futter On 6/10/04 2:16 PM, "John Horner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost too obvious to point out, but we have a web-based app which > opens (full-sized) new windows sometimes, and in training, I often > have people say "what happened to the Back button? It doesn't work!" > -- if they're running a maximised Windows browser, a new window > opening is often indistinguishable from navigation to another page. > These are not the kind of users who will look down at the taskbar and > notice a second window icon for IE and figure it out for themselves. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > "Have You Validated Your Code?" > John Horner (+612 / 02) 9333 2110 > Senior Developer, ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
