OT: websites/popups (was Re: The filePro & Group - A second attempt)

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:22:22PM -0400,
Kenneth Brody blabbed on about:
> 
> Well, there are the ones that pop up a window w/o resize ability,
> and they make the window too small.  (Perhaps it's the right size
> if you are using IE and have the right font size set.  But, I end
> up with a window with content larger than the window, no way to
> resize the window, and no scrollbars.)

Ewwwwwwwwww.  I've fortunately not run into that.  Maybe the Doom3 or Fear
demo windows but that was Flash and non-scalable.

> And speaking of Flash (which you were in the snipped portion), don't
> get me started on sites that have a Flash-only main page.  (The kind
> that shows up entirely blank -- not even a "click here to continue"
> or a "skip intro" link -- if you have Flash disabled.)  Or, worse, a
> Flash-only entire website.

*cough*  Sci-Fi Channel used to be like that.  It's still beastly to use
without Flash, but the official Stargate sites were like that.  :(
Actually, it still is:  http://www.scifi.com/atlantis/  The whole main menu
with any of the useful links is all buried in the Flash.

And if you had no Flash installed, it would mandate that you get it.  I
originally had issues when on Win95 and then after migrating to Win2K where
it looked like it was installed, was installed, but was somehow screwy, and
I kept installing it and it kept saying I required Flash at Sci-Fi...any
part of Sci-Fi.  Eventually I found the uninstaller and fixed that.

Damn, that ticks me off too.  *low growl*  You're not alone on that.

I've come to a truce with Flash after I got Flash Firestarter from
Coffeecup Software.  I like it, but in moderation and where it makes sense.
I've changed my views on PDF as well, obviously.  Never let it be said my
opinions are wholly immutable and immune to new evidence.  Still...there's
the issue of "sensible use".  Unfortunately designers buy into the
oft-quoted statistic that Flash is installed on 99% of net-connected
systems.  I think that's probably a Macromedia/Adobe-derived statistic,
myself.

mark->
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