Thanks for you contribution to this discussion Ryan, my apologies if you
felt 'got at' in any way by me... it certainly was a lively debate, and
it was great that you voiced your opinion with such enthusiasm.
cheers
./tdw
On 7/10/04 1:26 PM, Ryan Nichols wrote:
I'm intitially responded to a post regarding any possible usability
reasons why you would want 'pop-ups'. I re-defined pop-ups as not
limited to web pop-ups, but any windowed information which appears on
top of content to show contextual information or prompt for user action.
Whether it is implemented with flash, javascript, browser window, or a
desktop GUI, I gave usability reasons why those paradigms are used and
the context in which they are useful. At this point any further
discussion boils down to misunderstandings. I fully understand why 95%
of the time on websites/applications new browser windows are not good I
only wanted to make an alternate point.
At any rate this is a great list and the posts here are very informative
to read.
Cheers!
Ryan Nichols
Graphic Design / Web Development
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