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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. </vent> -PhilThere's stuff above here
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