{"id":841,"date":"2008-08-28T11:56:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T10:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/841-internet-explorer-8-firefox-3-popunder-failure.html"},"modified":"2008-08-28T11:56:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T10:56:03","slug":"internet-explorer-8-firefox-3-popunder-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/841-internet-explorer-8-firefox-3-popunder-failure.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer 8, FireFox 3 pop-under failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a UK briefing for Internet Explorer 8 last night. An interesting product which I\u2019ll be writing plenty more about \u2013 you can get it here<\/a>. Installed smoothly on my Virtual Box Vista.<\/p>\n

At the event I mentioned to someone from the IE team that it is annoying how pop-ups still somehow get round the pop-up blocker. The guy seemed mildly surprised and asked me to send him any urls I found. I didn\u2019t have to wait long. If you want obsessive detail on the recordings of Elvis Presley, a great site to visit is elvisrecordings.com<\/a> [warning<\/strong>: pop-ups and pop-unders]. I can\u2019t recommend it though, because there are some annoying scripts there. I thought this would make a good test for IE8 Beta 2. The home page has some stuff that gets blocked, and it has some Java which doesn\u2019t run because I haven\u2019t installed it yet, but if I click the link for the Sun recordings (arguably the best of Elvis) I get this:<\/p>\n

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The only extra step I took to get this screen was to click the pop-under in the task bar so it came to the front. Lucky me, I\u2019m a \u201cpossible Audi A3 winner\u201d.<\/p>\n

Just to be fair, I tried it in FireFox 3. Same result:<\/p>\n

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Maybe it is just too difficult to block this stuff successfully without breaking pages.<\/p>\n

The other question: why do otherwise useful sites pollute themselves with this junk? Is the money really that good? For what it\u2019s worth, the culprit seems to be a \u201cfree\u201d web stats provider called Motigo. Avoid.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll forward the url to my contact.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: ie8<\/a>, popups<\/a>, popunders<\/a>, security<\/a>, internet<\/a>, firefox<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended a UK briefing for Internet Explorer 8 last night. An interesting product which I\u2019ll be writing plenty more about \u2013 you can get it here. Installed smoothly on my Virtual Box Vista. At the event I mentioned to someone from the IE team that it is annoying how pop-ups still somehow get round … Continue reading Internet Explorer 8, FireFox 3 pop-under failure<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55,79,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-software","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}