[Web4lib] Pop-up blocker on or off?

[Robin]

My suggestion is to work with the guy doing the imaging. When he says an
image is ready, go to the machine and access each of your known sites
(unless you have thousands, of course!) and allow popups. Then turn the
blocker on.

Also Firefox (and I suspect IE 7) allow on-the-fly allow/disallow of
popups for the current site so you can make changes to what's allowed by
the image.

If you can't get the image the way you want it, patron and staff
education (how to block or allow popups by site) may be your only
option. It does give people the most flexibility of choice, in my
opinion.

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hankinson
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:00 PM
To: Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Pop-up blocker on or off?

Having spent the last couple of years using only a popup-blocking
browser, I honestly don't know how big the popup problem is now.

One thing you could do is to switch your popup blocker off for a day
and use the internet like you normally would.  If you get annoyed by
them, then you'll know that it might be best if you leave it on.

Cheers,
Andrew

On 7/17/07, Nancy E. Sosna Bohm <nancy at thesmudge.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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