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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

> Add to that scenario that people like myself block ALL popups (I use
> Firefox and adblock) and it makes sense to consider your audience.

Which is not an accessibility issue. A good popup script should check
if a window was opened and then not return to the link, otherwise it
should follow the link in the same window, which caters for your
scenario, too.

You _chose_ to stop popups, if that is an accessibility issue then I
could also claim discrimination towards companies that have web sites
that fail to deliver me their secrets when I turn my monitor off.

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