Re: Pop-up blockers - what to do about it?
> >Instead of trying to find tech way for blocking the
> >blocker which will eventually turn developers to find
> >a way to block the blockers blocking etc (;-) you may
> >wish to try to outsmart the software by popping up the
> >content while serving ads on the main HTML page...
> >This way the blockers would actually see the ad but not
> >the content ;-) (at least not before they click some
> >link that you may include on the ad page)
>
> I hope you're kidding Neven...
Actually, I was not.
Truth is I didn't really think about it a lot before launching
my "solution". However, even after your comment I don't
think the idea could not be implemented.
> If a publisher requires that site visitors view pops as
> a condition of visiting a site, that information should
> be disclosed by a javascript.alert on the main entry
> page.
That would be nice. But would it really make your
cheating visitors to turn their blocking software off?
> Then deploy a sniffer to detect whether or not a
> visitor is using a pops killer.
And then what. Deny them access? Okay. At least
until some hacker finds the way to crack through your
protection again...
> I think it bad judgement to deny someone site
> access if they have javascript disabled, or their
> JVM is not so up to date as to accept the
I guess you haven't notice the part where I mentioned a clickable
link on the ad page that will open the content page?
> programming you send out. If your site is responsible
> for crashing their browser or locking up their machine,
> you aren't making any friends anyway.
Well, in that case you should not use pop-ups in the first place...
Which is actually what I am doing ;-)
No pop-ups/unders on my sites!
Anyway, you shouldn't take my comments too seriously because,
as I said, I just fired out the idea. Since I am not interested
in pop-ups I thought to share my "instant solution" with the forum
and let interested parties decide to use it or trash it.
Neven Prasnikar
artplus_at_artplus.hr
http://www.artplus.hr
Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 11:10:56 CDT
