Re: [Epiphany] Popups blocking

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Happy 2003 all!

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

[Seth Nickell]
> > I suggest that what makes popups annoying is not that they take up space
> > (which they do, but we tolerate in-page advertisement much better) but
> > that they force us to close them (either before we read the content or

Good point.

> > Is it possible to somehow close popups when the window they are
> > associated with closes? Or something like that? Just talking out of my
> > arse here ;-)
> Yeah this is possible and sounds like a very good idea.

It also might be worth it trying to make closing popups easier. I imagine
that the mouse pointer changes to an xkill-like shape when it is over a
popup, except when over form elements, so that popups can be "shot off"
without having to point precisely to the close button on the titlebar.

regards,

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