Re: Chromeless popups

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: Re: Chromeless popups
Date: 01:39 on 21 Oct 2006
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Timothy Knox wrote:

> Text
> that
> looks
> like
> this.
 
It could be worse -- the ones that drive me batty are the sites that 
combine this impulse with the impulse to split a 500 word article -- 
which would ordinarly be something like two pages of 8"x11" paper -- 
across 10 or more pages in an attempt to boost ad impressions.

And of course most of the ads are animated, triggering the irrepressible 
caveman MUST PAY ATTENTION TO FLASHING OBJECT reflex & making it nearly 
impossible to get through the article without losing your delicate train 
of thought.

Under OSX 10.4.7, you could pull a trick where a right-click would lock 
up the browser (Safari or Firefox) in such a way that all the Flash 
animations would JUST. STOP. FLASHING. for a long enough for you to 
read the page and scroll down past the ad. 

Which was nice. If clumsy.

However, now that I try it again, it appears that 10.4.8 has cheerfully 
corrected this "bug", and the animations soldier on undaunted by clicks. 

And so site policy hate spirals back, as it ever does, to software hate.



-- 
Chris Devers
There's stuff above here

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