| Do you remember unstoppable pop up? Ever | | | | was not slow enough. Microsoft playing the |
| figure it out? Or perhaps you spent hard | | | | role of a political hack tries to be all |
| earned money to purchase the program. | | | | things to all people and while that is part |
| Perhaps you don't have the program, but would | | | | of what propelled their operating system to |
| like to know how it works. Read on. We will | | | | prominence, it may prove to be their undoing |
| give it to you not for $97.95, not $67.95, | | | | in the final analysis. |
| not $24.95, not even $1.95 but Free!! First, | | | | |
| however, there are a few things you need to | | | | Remote Helpdesk 1, back in the good old days, |
| know and understand. | | | | purchased Netscape and apparently like many |
| | | | others was incensed at continually having to |
| Properly used the popup can dispense data, | | | | download plug-ins for anything and everything |
| bring you extra visitors, collect e-mail | | | | you wanted to do. Along comes Microsoft with |
| addresses, and increase your revenue without | | | | their operating system including a free web |
| being perceived as intrusive. On the other | | | | browser and the most commonly used plug-ins. |
| hand, abuse it and loose visitors as quickly | | | | Can you say, "jump ship!"? |
| as the pop up launches... visitors who will | | | | |
| in all probability never return. | | | | Now everyone is jumping ship again. Back to |
| | | | the future springs eternal and Linux with its |
| King Solomon said, "there is nothing new | | | | many editions is right on target. Download |
| under the sun". What do you think has | | | | and install the basics and then get the |
| changed since Solomon's reign? | | | | plug-ins needed as they are needed. How many |
| | | | times have you heard your mother say, "what |
| This neat effect has been important to | | | | goes around, comes around"? And, it has been |
| websites and internet marketers since | | | | our experience that Linux (Remote Help Desk 1 |
| commerce and the public discovered the world | | | | and Computer Man Website Design use the |
| wide web. There are at least two ways to | | | | Debian edition) blocks more pop ups and does |
| accomplish the unstoppable popup. How do I | | | | much more to protect a computer than most |
| know? Because some of our websites employ | | | | other operating systems while maintaining |
| one or both concepts and to date both work | | | | open source integrity for the computer user. |
| equally well. | | | | |
| | | | Like almost everyone else, the Tennessee |
| Pop up stopper programmers are working | | | | Mountain Man Computer Man hates to have |
| diligently as we speak to prevent the | | | | research interrupted by the couple of seconds |
| unstoppable pop up but have, so far, been | | | | it takes for a pop up to launch and be |
| unable to do so. | | | | dispatched especially if that intrusion (as |
| | | | often happens) has nothing to do with the |
| Before employing the pop up in any form | | | | subject matter at hand. |
| webmasters must consider that there are | | | | |
| reasons why pop up blockers are everywhere. | | | | That being said it is simply a matter of |
| The final nail in the coffin of the pop up | | | | proper programming. Don't go reinventing the |
| was driven by adult web sites. People were | | | | wheel until it no longer serves your purpose. |
| tired of these sexually explicit ads popping | | | | |
| up in mixed company, in front of their | | | | Option 1: Grab the pop up that occurs at |
| mother, on the church computer and as their | | | | Copy the code from the page source and change |
| children surfed the web. | | | | the information to meet your needs. |
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| According to Wikipedia, today anyway, "Opera | | | | Option 2: Assuming you can prepare a |
| was the first major browser to incorporate | | | | standard pop up script, it should have about |
| tools to block pop-up ads; the Mozilla | | | | a 5 second delay, perhaps the easiest and |
| browser later improved on this by blocking | | | | maybe the best way in the end is to encrypt |
| only pop-ups generated as the page loads. In | | | | your source code. You can do this free of |
| the early 2000s, all major web browsers | | | | cost at or |
| except Internet Explorer allowed the user to | | | | |
| block unwanted pop-ups almost completely." | | | | There is a lot of hype that this or that |
| Notice their caveat, "almost completely". | | | | retail (notice you have to buy it to test it |
| | | | and once software is opened it is yours) pup |
| In 2004, Microsoft finally built one into | | | | up blocker intercepts and stops all pop-ups. |
| their Windows XP SP2 operating system along | | | | No... not yet anyway! |
| with a fire wall and ad filtering as if it | | | | |