[thelist] Popup Window on Exit

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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This goes right to the heart of a conflict between those who have a
message to communicate (aka "the business") and the users.

Popups are really useful to notify users of something without
losing the original context - not just ads/service announcements,
but interactive stuff like logins. Think of the classic .htaccess password
box - it's a popup.

However, unless it's clear that it offers benefit to them, users really
get angry at popups, particularly if you take away their control by
removing any of the following:
* scrollbars (*especially* if the page is too long to scroll)
* Resizability
* closability (I will personally disembowel anyone who suggests that
   onClose(openWin()) is A Good Thing)
* Location Field (less important if it's an interactive widget)

If you absolutely *must* use a popup, it's a better idea to just use
target="_foo" - that way you maintain all of the above.

Cheers
Martin



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Silly question, but why would you want to do that?
Sounds obtrusive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Barret A Monchka [mailto:bmonchka at hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 6:49 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Popup Window on Exit


Hi,

   Does anybody have a good Javascript that will popup a window when a user
exists your website, in both Internet Explorer and Netscape?

Barret



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