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xpsp2 beta pop-up manager feedback

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I thought I would take some time to respond to some of the feedback from the beta. First, we have gotten a lot of very positive feedback on the Pop-up Manager. I am very happy about this. I have always been excited to work on IE because it is used by so many people. Having all those people excited about something in the product is even better. Despite all the joy, there have been some incoming bugs from the beta program. 

Script error when pop-up is blocked -- This happens when a web page calls window.open() and then blindly uses the return value without checking for null. This is bad because window.open() can fail for reasons other then IE deciding to block a pop-up, such as out of memory, etc. Some third party pop-up management tools suppress the script error but the script still stops running. 

Adding *.domain.com to white list does not work -- This is a known bug. We did not have time to add the wild card functionality for the beta. This has now been implemented and will work in the next release.

Various pop-ups are blocked or not blocked inappropriately -- There are reports that some pop-ups are allowed when they should not be or are blocked when they should be allowed through. We will investigate each of these and see where the problem lies. 

There were also a few requests to add various bells and whistles. Some of these were things we had already considered or are still taking under consideration, and some were quite outlandish. One of our guiding principles for this feature was to keep things simple for the user-- they turn it on, forget about it, and it just works. I have personally seen third party pop-up managers with, literally, hundreds of options to tweak and play with. Having that level of detailed control is great for us geeks, but for something built-in to IE it is unreasonable.

On a completely personal and unrelated side note, I take it as a sort of personal defeat whenever I am forced to add another dialog box to the product.

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  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2004
    Quick question, I was just wondering if a tabbed interface for IE is planned since it seems to be gaining quite a bit of popularity? Any comments on this?

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2004
    I can not really comment one way or the other on tabbed browsing. But I promise to post about it at some future date.

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2004
    Jeffdav: Are there any plans for transparent PNG support and full CSS2 support? Currently, the only transparent image format is GIF, which is really low quality in my opinion and designed for the dialup era. Transparent PNGs are designed for the broadband era, and they will give users huge new opportunities to create greater looking web pages, because you get the quality of JPEGs with the ability to add transparency to the image as well.

    Also, full CSS2 support will help push IE forward in terms of developer flexibility like the poster mentioned above.

    These two features would put IE back on the top!

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2004
    can you at least say whether the thought/idea has crossed microsoft's mind? I hope it has, as that is the only thing holding it back from totally diminishing mozilla/opera's userbase. I just want an idea of if microsoft has heard the cry for tabbed browsing :)

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2004
    All you have to do is buy the code for MyIE2 and make a couple of branding changes. ;)

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2004
    Easier than that - use the code from the Microsoft Document Explorer that comes with Visual Studio .NET (2003).

    Indeed, you can use this if you really want a tabbed browser ;-) Personally, I'm not that keen - I prefer separate frames.

  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2004
    The popup manager has worked faultlessly for me, a real "set it and forget it" feature that works perfectly. Now i just wish it would hurry up and get released, maybe even as a standaline Pre-SP hotfix :D

  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2004
    <a title="xpsp2 beta pop-up manager feedback" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jeffdav/archive/2004/01/14/58726.aspx">xpsp2 beta pop-up manager feedback</a><strong>I thought I would take some time to respond to some of the feedback from the beta. First, we have gotten a lot of very positive feedback on the Pop-up Manager. I am very happy about this. I have always been excited to work on IE because it is used by so many people. Having all those people excited about something in the product is even better. Despite all the joy, there have been some incoming bugs from the beta program. </strong>



  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2004
    Applause for the popup manager. Indeed, it's easy to use and effective at the same time.

  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2004
    The new features for Internet Explore are quite handy, especially the "AllowList" and "DenyList" registry entries.

    I was curious if there were plans to implement "Uninstall/Remove Add-on" capabilities to the Manage Add-ons panel in Internet Explorer, which would be an excellent addition for the end-user. And, perhaps, an entry for end-users to create their own AllowList and/or DenyList without relying on the registry?

    Thanks for any feedback,

    Administrator

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    Any reason why after several days of not having any pop ups appearing in SP2 2082 all of a sudden I am getting bombarded with pop ups. XP is also not giving me the option to allow or reject theseannoying pop ups?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2004
    There could be several reasons. You can reset the Popup Blocker by deleting all the registry keys under HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerNew Windows. IE will generate the defaults from there.

    But I would also recommend getting Ad Aware or some other spyware/adware detector-remover and scan your machine. You could have (unintentionally) installed some malicious software that is spawning popups outside of the context that the IE popup manager can control.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2004
    Thanks very much Jeff - works a treat!

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