Not all pop-ups are bad

Jan. 5th, 2006 | 12:25 am

I'm back at work. Just finished processing 200 emails, not including flexcoders. Whew! I still have to reply to 22 messages.

The Flex FAQ is now live on devnet.

On my first day at work in 2006, I ran into an interesting issue: Firefox now blocks pop-ups from Flash and other plugins by default. It turns out that some smart people were using Flash to bypass pop-up blockers. With Firefox 1.5, the default value of privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins is 2 -- i.e. block pop-ups.

The same is true of IE6 on Windows XP SP2.

Not all pop-ups are bad though! On what basis does the browser decide if a pop-up is good or bad?

The 'good' ones... )

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