Re: Reason #1781 to hate Mosa^H^H^H^HNets^H^H^H^HMozil^H^H^H^H^HFirefox.

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From: Phil Pennock
Subject: Re: Reason #1781 to hate Mosa^H^H^H^HNets^H^H^H^HMozil^H^H^H^H^HFirefox.
Date: 22:30 on 18 Mar 2006
On 2006-03-17 at 18:20 -0600, Jeremy Weathers wrote:
> I've used a webmail app that has a popup for checking for new mail
> every n minutes and sounding an alert if new mail has arrived. When
> I was using it, I closed the main window completely and left the
> popup in the background.

On 2006-03-18 at 08:48 +0000, Smylers wrote:
> At work I use a site which displays the real-time running times of buses
> from the stop just outside our office.  It offers these in a small
> pop-up window, which I leave in the corner of my screen, but then I
> close the site that launched it.

And someone else came up with another point off-list, which was a
navigation control for a site.

So the default would be to auto-close when a user changes off-site.  And
since browsers have finally started preventing popups from removing all
controls, there should be some bar left which shows browser controls.
That can have an old Openwin-style pin control, so that you can pin the
damn pop-up onto the desktop if you explicitly want to keep it.

Pop-ups to keep are the exception, not the rule, and people who know
they want to keep a window are surely prepared to click on a pin?  Then
if the windows automatically disappear when the user navigates away from
the triggering site, much of the incentive for writing the advertising
pop-under ones disappears.

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-Phil
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