Solution for blocked popups?
Whats up guys, first post here.
I'm designing a business website and there's couple spots where Id really like to use a Pop Up; specifically for opening forms, and small news stories. The problem is that pop-up blockers are blocking these windows, and to some people who dont know much about computers, it just seems like an inactive link.
What are your thoughts on pop-ups in general, do you guys ever use em? Is there an alternative method? Is there a script that would force them to open?
Is it feasible do have Pop-Ups must be allowed in the requirements paragraph?
Thanks for the assistance,
Ryan
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gallion311] at [2007-11-11 7:10:58]
# 2 Re: Solution for blocked popups?
You should probably do your best to avoid using them. We use them on dev-archive in a few places (to show a large size screen capture, for example) but you'd be smart to find some other method if you can. While it's easy enough to tell your popup blocker to put your site on their whitelist, they've got to be pretty motivated to do so. If your only visitors will be a small community of regular vistors (such as employees) it's probably OK but if you're hoping to interest a broad swath of casual vistors, don't use them.
No you can't "force" them to open--nor would you want to. You'll just irritate people and damage your relationship with them. It's not worth it. It's their desktop, not yours.
If you decide to use them anyway, just put a small bit of text near the links asking readers to please whitelist your site in order to make the links work.
Lori
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Lori at 2007-11-11 23:36:04 >
