Re: popup windows

Hi Monz,

As it happens, I've been thinking about exactly the same thing for
the help for FTS.

I can understand a Newbie to windows (not nec. to tuning) can get
confused with popup windows.

This is especially so if using a medium resolution screen (1024 by 768)
with the windows maximised.

Often the popup completely fills the screen, and as a newbie, I think
one mightn't know the old one is still there.

Likely question is: "why is my back button greyed out so that I can't
use it any more?"

Also, if one keeps going, losing windows to the background in that way, eventually one
will run out of resources because so many windows are open.

They will all show up in the task bar, but I know that a complete newbie
can use Windows for quite a long time, at least several months, before
noticing that they show up there, or that one can swap between programs
by clicking on the icons in the task bar.

Another thing is that even if one knew in advance that it will open in a new window,
or that the links at a particular position on a page generally do so,
there seems to be nothing one can do about it if one happens to want to show
them in the same window instead.

One just has to show it and then go back to the old window and remove it,
and then back to the new one again - clumsy - and you have the greyed out back button
problem again too. There's no right click + open in same window option
in that case.

I think losing the back button when one goes to the new page is the biggest drawback
with popups.

However, it is very nice to be able to open a new window with one click instead
of the clumsier right click + menu + select, if that is what one wants to do.

One solution I'm experimenting with is to add a second link (open in new window)
after the link.

Robert