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You are absolutely correct in saying that javascript has uses.
That takes nothing away from my comment. I see an awful lot of
awful javascript doing awfully useless things. I use Opera as my
primary browser, and if I have it report JS errors, I can't go
more than three or four sites before getting a slew of errors.
Requested popups good. Spam popups bad. And 9 out of every 10
popups I see are not requested.



I'll buy this reason.
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Perhaps you and David could post the urls of those really great sites you
have created?
 
I liked it better the other way, but the vocal minority seems to rule these
days.
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In response to your comment I changed portfolio and downloads so they show
in-page.
 
Looking at the JScript behind the pages:

<script language=javascript>
<!--
if(navigator.appName=='Microsoft Internet Explorer'){

<snip FLASH code here>

}
else{
document.writeln('<img src=images/ffdba.png>');

}

The people who are seeing a problem probably have a navigator.AppName that
is not "Microsoft Internet Explorer" and are just seeing that .PNG file
(which is all I can see, and I am running the absolute latest version of
IE).


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Pop-up windows where users have to click on something to open the
window does not require javascript. Plain old HTML is all that's
needed.
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Can you control the style of the window with windows opened in that
fashion? That is, sizing the window, removing the browser toolbar
and menu, and so forth?
See http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/a.html for
more information, most notably the "TARGET" portion of the tag.
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There's nothing mentioned here or in the W3C's documentation
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html) about styling
the window with TARGET.

Indeed, it appears from the W3C docmentation that the chief purpose
of TARGET is for use with frames, where window characteristics are
predefined, since the frame is a child window.

Indeed, it appears that the behavior of TARGET is under discussion:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-css3-hyperlinks-20040224/

But even there, I see no discussion of positioning or sizing or
removal of browser chrome/toolbars, etc.

Another point is that even if TARGET were to allow the specification
of such attributes, it would not really allow the same kind of
centralization of code that Javascript allows. A single piece of
code could be used to launch all popups, whereas with the TARGET
attribute, you'd have to specify all the other attributes inline,
with each link. Well, I guess you could use CSS for that, but it's
not clear to me that CSS can control all of the attributes that
Javascript can control.
 
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