Popup blockers are everywhere, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do popups anymore.
A few days ago a collegue asked how he could create a link to another page with Javascript that would open in a new window. He reckoned that since the emergence of the popup blockers it’s impossible to create a popup of any sorts with Javascript. Not true, but understandable. Popup blockers changed the world and protected us ever since from both irritating bannering and designers that didn’t care about usability. And there are valid solutions like absolute positioned blocks.
Anyway: most popup blockers only block popups that open without any user interaction. If you use an onclick event to open a new window, it will be ignored by convention.
What’s creepy by the way is that you could open multiple popups in one click like this:
open popups
