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How it should be implemented
The user should be prompted with a dialog box like this:


"The page http://popups.com/main.html wants to open an additional window on your desktop onto http://popups.com/popup1.html .

Do you want to

o Always allow new windows
o Never allow new windows
* Allow this new window
o Load the content in the existing window instead

* When requested by an existing window at http://popups.com/
o When the new window content comes from http://popups.com/
o For all Web addresses

* Today
o Whenever I use the computer"

- where "*" are the default selections.

The control panel for this, if the user has selected "Always" or "Never", probably should be on the existing "Internet options - Content" page.

There could also be one-click buttons for the most common choices that you'd do ten times a minute... maybe I need to think more about the interface.
Posted by: Robert Carnegie   Posted on: 11/11/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Now THAT'S Innovation!  bidemytime | 11/10/03
Re: Now THAT'S Innovation!  dcarrera | 11/10/03
Here here (off topic)  Fred Fredrickson | 11/10/03
You can't please everyone, Fred!  Bill Weisgerber | 11/11/03
Site not to standards -- poor professionalism  zen_dogen | 11/11/03
Re: Your post  Enton Eller | 11/11/03
Re: Now THAT'S Innovation!  Hard Cider | 11/10/03
RE: Re: Now THAT'S Innovation!  nrlz | 11/10/03
HTML?  Enton Eller | 11/11/03
Grrrrr How did you get the HTML to work??  Enton Eller | 11/11/03
can' win can they  lmaxwell | 11/10/03
Oh goody  vdraken | 11/10/03
It is more like MS is feeling the heat  jjon2121 | 11/10/03
something really funny  Joe_Bob | 11/10/03
Re: Oh goody  dcarrera | 11/10/03
Innovation my ...  schmitt249 | 11/10/03
FOR THE RECORD  bidemytime | 11/11/03
Dare I say it...  Fred Fredrickson | 11/10/03
Huh?  Jomo_z | 11/10/03
Don't think so  altereqo | 11/10/03
Dare! Dare to say it!  AbsolutelyNot | 11/10/03
Just as bad or worse  DarthRidiculous | 11/10/03
expanding ads only work on IE  doh123 | 11/10/03
Works on others  dscherf | 11/10/03
Re: expanding ads only work on IE  dcarrera | 11/10/03
I haven't seen an ad or popup in ages  Mr_Shifty | 11/11/03
What the?  Mr_Shifty | 11/11/03
Talk to the hand because ZDNet sure isn't listening. (NT)  none none | 11/11/03
Try Mozilla  poocow666 | 11/10/03
Using Firebird 0.7  richardanstett | 11/10/03
Using 1.5  nikoli | 11/10/03
Mozilla market share  dcarrera | 11/10/03
One more thing...  dcarrera | 11/10/03
Mozilla & Netscape 7.1 already do this now  mbratch | 11/10/03
wohoo  lmaxwell | 11/10/03
That's very ironic, don't you think maxi?  Spoon Jabber | 11/11/03
I let Google block on IE  FilledOut | 11/11/03
How it should be implemented  Robert Carnegie | 11/11/03
That and a Download Manager Too  nucrash | 11/11/03
Sites that use pop-ups legitimately may suffer  doctormoriarty | 11/11/03
No no no  lacjoe@... | 11/11/03
It was a figure of speech  doctormoriarty | 11/11/03
...actually  spydrlink@... | 11/12/03
Again Microsoft follows the leader...  Tammee | 11/11/03
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We already have the most effective blocker out there...  BitTwiddler | 11/11/03
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Censoring  jskline0@... | 11/12/03
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bb  Enton Eller | 11/23/03
re  Enton Eller | 11/23/03
਼  none none | 11/23/03
਼  none none | 11/23/03
gg  none none | 11/23/03

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