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IE To Block Pop-Ups
smd4985 writes "Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the technology to make it hard for Bill 'embrace and extend' Gates to kill those XCam ads...."
Mozilla should sue Microsoft for theft of intellectual property. Would they have a case? Maybe. I don't advocate SCO type suits, but in this case, it's Microsoft, and they are blatantly stealing a major feature from a rival.
**Slap*** Bad boy, Billygoat Gates, on your mountain of cash!
Next, Microsoft will add Tabbed browsing!!
(I wouldn't know if they have it now because I'm a diehard Mozilla user)
WTF?
0sdn NOT PAYING yOU ENouGH?
FUCK YOU!
Dude, this is ChrisZuma we're talking about here, I predict he is talking out of his stupid ass.
Suck it, bitch.
Maybe they'll make that spiffy search assistant start spewing out ad blurbs between file searches. "Hey, have you tried the new Vanilla Pepsi?"
Does that arouse you?
In Soviet Russia, popups disable you!
Clippy jokes were funny about six years ago when Office 97 came out.
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One thing about Microsoft - when handed a bag of lemons, they generally manage to make lemonade.
In this case, you may well have hit the nail right on the head, and shown up the good old 'law of unintended consequences'. It goes like this:
1: Microsoft begins popup blocking, just like Mozilla, Opera, et al.
2: With its 90% market share, advertisers notice, and begin writing ads in sparkle, as you say.
3: Through some odd quirk, purely accidental, of course, pages with sparkle won't work in non-IE browsers. Perhaps by MS insisting that some critical page content be in sparkle, as well as ads.
4: Only MS pages can show ads, and only on IE. No doubt MS will have sparkle guidelines to keep ads from becoming too intrusive. No doubt they'll also sell advertisers on how much more 'effective' the more subtle sparkle ads are, especially when combined with sparkle content on the same page. (Read: IE-only)
5: Ad revenue dries up on non-IE-only web sites, and most non-IE ad-sustained sites wither.
6: Profit!!
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
What if IE could only block some popups but not others. For example it could block all popups except those that come from MS servers. Maybe it will block all ads except where the advertiser paid MS. IE could automatically download an encrypted list of popups to allow.
War is necrophilia.
What's the significance on Windows? With Windows, each browser Window automatically adds an entry to the task bar at the bottom of the screen. You "tab" by selecting a task bar item. Windows already has "tabbed" browsing. What world are you living in?
I guess this is for OS's that "don't" have this feature? Like Apple, which just shows an icon? Go ahead, add your kind of "tabbed" browsing to IE, it'll just eat up more desktop space.
Tabbed dialogs are a "nuisance" to use in my world.
"Mmmm, check this out!"
Mac users are more intelligent than Windows users.
No, you're just arrogant shitstains. The difference may seem subtle to you Mac zealots, but then this is because you lack common sense.
Well, I don't know, arrogant, stupid, shitstains.
Or you don't know how to read a mild pun (something implying that nobody in their right mind would seriously suggest mac users are more intelligent than the average computer user) or you're just plain assholes who love a good shout.
Read the parent, then my reply and see in what category you fall.
Good day to you too, dimwits.
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FUCK YOU BITCH
> In Safari, this option is very well hidden (in a Menu) and still almost everybody enables it immediately
Only the "smart" Mac users would even be using Safari. The dumb ones are still on MacOS 8 or 9 or 10.1 and haven't figured how to download a new browser.
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No, not really, but its boring nonetheless.