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Hi all, I am a web developer and the new popup blocker feature in Service
Pack 2 is highly annoying and totally obstructs my work. All of my sites are
listings of some sort with lots of images that need to be enlarged (and thus
use a USER REQUESTED pop up to open them up larger in a new window). Sure, as
everything microsoft, it comes with very clear and easy instructions on how
to turn off this feature, but as usual, it's either faulty, inconclusive, or
just plain doesn't work.
In IE I go to: tools > popup blocker > and then I turn it off... but guess
what... it doesn't turn off. It "says" it's off, but it's not, it keeps
working... or better said, not working.
Online I can browse websites without the annoying popup blocker, but
offline, my local websites (the ones I work on before I upload them to a
server) cannot use the popups. It's driving me insane. Please help me.
Somebody needs to tell these guys that not all popups are unrequested and
that user requested pop windows are not only useful but a NECESITY... how
else would you see a slideshow of images, or fill out a user survey, or click
on a thumbnail to expand an image...
Geesh, it seems they made this thing to only please porn website visitors
who get a million unrequested automatic popups... popups have never ever been
a problem for me, and I spend at least 14 hours a day on the internet... I
never get them anywhere I wish to go to... sometimes a search result will
take me to an unwanted website and boom, I get a million popups, but other
than that, just a few here and there that usually only have surveys and/or
discount coupons of some sort that I DO wish to see.
Don't take me wrong, the feature IS a good one to have and I bet is probably
the best service pack they've come up so far... it's got a lot of pretty good
stuff that will make our pcs a lot safer... specially for self downloading
viruses and worms, but please let administrators have the choice not to use
it, or think of us web designers who need the ability to browse freely
offline... the option is there, but I need one that works!
I have spoken with every guru and webmaster I know and no one has the answer
and they all agree that this feature is a pain in the butt offline... and now
we can't show our projects to our clients offline without the clients
thinking that all those warnings and broken windows are the result of bad
programming.
The popup blocker settings come with a section where you can manually add
"safe" websites... but guess what... if they don't begin with WWW then you
can't add it. So, my local websites, again, the ones I have to test and work
on OFFLINE, obviously begin with C:// or D:// or whatever drive I have them
in... and those, I can't add to the safe list, so I still get all my content
blocked and when I'm lucky to get the warnings I can click off to let the
content work, then everytime I go to a new page, they reactivate themselves
and i have to keep clicking them. It really doesn't let me work, and I'm no
rookie either. I've been doing this for years and consider good at what I do.
Please, some expert out there with a heart, tell me what I'm doing wrong if
anything, I need to be able to browse my sites offline with their full
options without interruptions.
Thank you all very much for hearing me vent...
Pack 2 is highly annoying and totally obstructs my work. All of my sites are
listings of some sort with lots of images that need to be enlarged (and thus
use a USER REQUESTED pop up to open them up larger in a new window). Sure, as
everything microsoft, it comes with very clear and easy instructions on how
to turn off this feature, but as usual, it's either faulty, inconclusive, or
just plain doesn't work.
In IE I go to: tools > popup blocker > and then I turn it off... but guess
what... it doesn't turn off. It "says" it's off, but it's not, it keeps
working... or better said, not working.
Online I can browse websites without the annoying popup blocker, but
offline, my local websites (the ones I work on before I upload them to a
server) cannot use the popups. It's driving me insane. Please help me.
Somebody needs to tell these guys that not all popups are unrequested and
that user requested pop windows are not only useful but a NECESITY... how
else would you see a slideshow of images, or fill out a user survey, or click
on a thumbnail to expand an image...
Geesh, it seems they made this thing to only please porn website visitors
who get a million unrequested automatic popups... popups have never ever been
a problem for me, and I spend at least 14 hours a day on the internet... I
never get them anywhere I wish to go to... sometimes a search result will
take me to an unwanted website and boom, I get a million popups, but other
than that, just a few here and there that usually only have surveys and/or
discount coupons of some sort that I DO wish to see.
Don't take me wrong, the feature IS a good one to have and I bet is probably
the best service pack they've come up so far... it's got a lot of pretty good
stuff that will make our pcs a lot safer... specially for self downloading
viruses and worms, but please let administrators have the choice not to use
it, or think of us web designers who need the ability to browse freely
offline... the option is there, but I need one that works!
I have spoken with every guru and webmaster I know and no one has the answer
and they all agree that this feature is a pain in the butt offline... and now
we can't show our projects to our clients offline without the clients
thinking that all those warnings and broken windows are the result of bad
programming.
The popup blocker settings come with a section where you can manually add
"safe" websites... but guess what... if they don't begin with WWW then you
can't add it. So, my local websites, again, the ones I have to test and work
on OFFLINE, obviously begin with C:// or D:// or whatever drive I have them
in... and those, I can't add to the safe list, so I still get all my content
blocked and when I'm lucky to get the warnings I can click off to let the
content work, then everytime I go to a new page, they reactivate themselves
and i have to keep clicking them. It really doesn't let me work, and I'm no
rookie either. I've been doing this for years and consider good at what I do.
Please, some expert out there with a heart, tell me what I'm doing wrong if
anything, I need to be able to browse my sites offline with their full
options without interruptions.
Thank you all very much for hearing me vent...