Pop ups

[maxelcat]

Hi ALl

Need a little advice regarding pop-ups.

Doing a site for a "client" and he wants a whopping gallery. I had figured its probably best to do new browser windows for each of the sections. Now I am having second thoughts. Its easy to code of course, but will the majority of his potential clients be able to open the galleries without messing around with their settings? I don't want that.

I could go back and remove the new window code, but that would mean my navigation isn't quite what I wanted (which isn't that big a deal really!)

What do people think.

Cheers

Edward

 

[feherke]

Hi

Its easy to code of course, but will the majority of his potential clients be able to open the galleries without messing around with their settings?

FireFox and Opera has built-in intelligent blocker : it does not block if the [tt]window.open()[/tt] method is executed as result of user interaction. So no setting needs and navigtion will be functional.

But in other browsers with third party blockers ? Unpredictable.

Regardless the success rate, I would not use it. I hate pop-up windows of any kind. And usually the robots hates them too, but this depends on your code.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ChrisHunt]

its probably best to do new browser windows for each of the sections

I very much doubt that. It irritates the heck out of me when sites start spawning new browser windows all over the place. It's bad enough when they do it for external links, it's worse for internal ones.

If you're looking for a nice way to display images "popped up" from the main content, without falling foul of pop-up blockers, try

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

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-- Chris Hunt
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