{"id":2472,"date":"2002-10-27T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2002-10-27T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=101"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:47:28","slug":"die-evil-pop-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/27\/die-evil-pop-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Die, evil pop-ups!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekculture.com\/joyoftech\/index.html\">The Joy of Tech<\/a>, one of my favorite online cartoons, blasts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekculture.com\/joyoftech\/joyarchives\/401.html\">pop-up ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that pop-ups and pop-unders are evil and should be abolished. Most modern browsers have options to suppress them; MSIE is the notable exception. The capability to open new windows, resize or move existing windows, or alter the window layering should be eliminated from JavaScript altogether; I can&#8217;t think of a single justifiable example. MSIE compounds its sins by blocking all activity &#8211; even quitting or clicking on the close button &#8211; until a pop-up has finished loading all its noisome payload.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/userfriendly.org\/\">Illiad<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ars.userfriendly.org\/cartoons\/?id=20021026\">UserFriendly<\/a> expresses my sentiments very well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joy of Tech, one of my favorite online cartoons, blasts pop-up ads. I agree that pop-ups and pop-unders are evil and should be abolished. Most modern browsers have options to suppress them; MSIE is the notable exception. The capability to open new windows, resize or move existing windows, or alter the window layering should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-software","tag-comics"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-DS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}