Re: Popup Blocker UI

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

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Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
~ >>- - The icon is not accessible. A handicapped user can do per-site popup
|>blocking but not necessarily allow a specific popup.
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| Question: what's the rationale for showing that icon on the statusbar
| instead of the notification area, like the download notification icon?

That's an interesting idea. One important reason: popups are really a
webpage-specific thing. If you've got 5 browser windows open, each with
2 tabs with 2 popups, would you want 5 separate menus with 2 entries or
one menu with 20 entries? Putting the icon in the statusbar lets the
user easily see which web page requested the popups: if I'm browsing
porn sites while researching something important, for example, I'd
*expect* the notification area to have an icon -- and it could be
blocking some part of my important research but I'd never notice because
I'd assume the blocked popups are from the porn site.

That said, I'll give this more consideration: it just might be crazy
enough to work :). Can anyone offer more details which *would* make it work?

| In any case I've noticed that the typing monitor notification, which
| starts blinking after x time, always manages to draw my attention.

What is the typing monitor notification?

| I don't know if the notification area has special handling of a11y issues
| but instead of handling it yourself you could leave it to the a11y team.
| :)

Using the notification area would fix a11y issues.

|>- - The "View" menu doesn't seem to be the proper place to put popup
|>blocking.
|>
|>Can anybody offer some UI suggestions?
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| I suggested it before and I'll do it again: I would _love_ to have a
| toolbar checkbox widget for this.

Your personal preference notwithstanding, most people would not want a
toolbar checkbox widget (it'd be a toggle button, by the way). So
whether there's a toolbar widget or not, I still need to put the option
somewhere else as well.

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Adam Hooper
adamh densi com
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