Donna Jones wrote:

>> It is the same circumstances as I described previously, although my
>> browser seems to have become smarter since I last ran across anyone
>> doing something like that and doesn't automatically give the window a
>> focus to lose when it opens now (of course, if I want to copy/paste data
>> from it, then I'm going to run into trouble no matter what techniques I
>> use to focus windows).
> 
> not sure why there would be trouble copy/pasting data, i don't have any
> trouble selecting it.

Copy a bit. Paste it in another window. Go to copy another bit. Oh, its
gone.

Windows are not things that usually vanish because you give your
attention to something else for a moment, so this behaviour contradicts
user expectations.

>> Dealing with that tiny window is something of a annoyance though,
>> especially at largish font sizes.
> 
> yes, i know.  but i did just increase the font size at least once and it
> felt reasonable to me, not a lot of scrolling and, of course, its easy
> to scroll down with the arrow/cursor keys.

Still a more scrolling then if it used the window the user provided
rather then trying to make its own.

>> * href="#" - a link to the top of the page is a pretty poor fallback
>> should the JavaScript not run for any reason.
> 
> not sure what you're talking about here, i guess the link at the bottom,
> but it does work without javascript.

No, the bio link itself, and it doesn't work without JavaScript. It just
links to the top of the page.

-- 
David Dorward                               <http://dorward.me.uk/>


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