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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, problems arise when you run into websites that exclude visitors for using pop-up blocking. Other problems also arise when a user doesn't realise a website needs to use a pop-up for a particular task, which can cause the user to think the site simply doesn't work when it should be working perfectly. Designers will stop using pop ups, which many of us would see as a good thing but regardless of how annoying they can be, an annoyance isn't a good reason to disable possibly lawful functionality. This will also cause the current designer/developer using pop-ups for adds to find alternative ways to make ends meet, like so: [url=http://www.popovergenerator.com/]http://www.popovergenerator.com/[/url] What's next? Disabling Javascript by Default? Like forcing free web hosts to add inline code to peoples pages, which will most likely cause a standards nightmare for anyone using said free host. But why should we care about that? It's not our website. Maybe pop-up blockers will solve the problem (which lets face it, is only an issue for personal home pages on free hosts and porn/warez/emulator websites), but with websites simply excluding visitors with pop-up blocking software that we, the users of this software, have caused. So we may have created yet another problem which IMO is a lot worse, but I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that this practice doesn't become wide spread, I like my pop-free porn sites damn it! I honestly can't say if things will work out for better or for worse, but I am weary of such things as they are effectively a band-aid solution. Perhaps it'll all work out sweal, but this might fuel another whole batch of bad practices, which will inturn see more features of the web switched off in the name of err, censorship? from adds?.... shrug As for the default Firefox settings, even with the introduction of this feature for first time users, I still think it should be something the user should explicitly configure themselves forcing them to understand exactly what it is they are doing. Admittedly the current user base of Firefox can easily take this in their stride, but if Firefox want's to go mainstream then such technically orientated features should best be left off at default, those who understand won't have problems using them, those who don't understand won't be further confused when their friends website doesn?t work in their new browser. At the end of the day there are good and bad points on both sides of the fence, but few people seem to voice the possibly bad points, which IMO has lead to popular software with default settings that might not have the best intensions of the greater community at heart, but that's just my opinion. [This message has been edited by Cameron (edited 02-25-2004).] Loading...
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