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Re: Best practice for warning users of opening window

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Aug 12, 2005 11:12AM

On 8/12/05, Conyers, Dwayne < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> The Overlib JavaScript library offers creative means for popup messages.
> http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib

Tooltips are not the same as popup windows. While it is true that you
can replace a lot of oldschool help popups with this kind of popunders
the implementation of this library on the above page is horrible. You
effectively make help information reliant on JavaScript, and that is
never a good plan. Furthermore, you make it dependent on a mouse.
Possibly you can use this library in an unobtrusive manner, but the
way it is advertised here I would avoid it and push it far away with a
big stick.



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