On 2/15/06, Al Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You're pre-supposing. If popup windows are scripted you reuse the > > same > > window object over and over. You can never have more than one open. > > Your statement is only true if the target attribute is used. > > I'm not pre-supposing anything. All popup windows break the back > button (popup as in a new window, Javascript or not). When I am done > with the site that pops up, I want to use the back button to get back > to the original site. That is natural web use and popups interfere > with that. I have to close the window to go back, which, like has > already been said, is not as convenient, as the back button is on my > trackball (like a mouse but cooler), while closing a window requires > alt-f4 (two buttons miles apart) or reaching for the X. > > Usually at this point I close the popup and "back out" of the > offending site. But maybe I'm too harsh. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > With all due respect, you are making a blanket assessment based on a > worst case scenario. Having one or two links on a few pages in a site > that open a single, named popup window containing, for example, sample > pages for a tutorial in the main window, is a practical use for popup > windows - at least in the opinion of some folks. I think it might be > gracious of you to admit that there might be more than one useful > opinion on this matter.
I would, if you weren't misunderstanding me. I am referring to, specifically, the case of opening external sites from a weblog, or opening external sites on a business page. I haven't said anything about the help links, and I do think Javascript is better than having the help on another page. I think popups are only reasonable for media such as music players, photos, etc. And they are definitely bad for PDFs... first a window opens and then the PDF loads in its own program... very annoying. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
