[Web4lib] Pop-up blocker on or off?

[Benjamin Daeuber]

I feel that most pop up blockers are smart enough to avoid the subscription databases because blockers generally allow "wanted" pop-ups through (items you click through and pop up a new window, rather than using flash or some other sneaky porn site method). Of course, sometimes not....
 
In IE it's quite easy to adjust the popup blocker or turn it off entirely, so I leave it enabled.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Nancy E. Sosna Bohm 
	Sent: Tue 7/17/2007 2:16 PM 
	To: web4lib at webjunction.org 
	Cc: 
	Subject: [Web4lib] Pop-up blocker on or off?
	
	

	Do those of you who are responsible for imaging a bank of machines set the
	browsers' pop-up blockers to on or off?
	
	For the computers in the reference area, I had assumed we would want pop-up
	blockers on with great care taken to allow pop-ups for the various
	subscription databases. But the fellow who's imaging the machines in the
	larger computer lab is just turning the pop-up blockers off. Perhaps he
	didn't like setting all the exceptions.
	
	What's the latest trend on this?
	
	Thanks in advance,
	Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
	Associate Reference Librarian
	Donnelley and Lee Library
	Lake Forest College
	sosna at lakeforest.edu
	
	
	_______________________________________________
	Web4lib mailing list
	Web4lib at webjunction.org
	http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/