Start Working With Browser Windows in JavaScript - A word of caution
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Even though pop up windows serve as a good feature for presenting web pages, they have their own disadvantages. Primarily, lots of websites use pop up windows for advertising. This has been a real harassment to the end users who really don’t want to go through advertisements at all.
Just imagine it from the end user's point of view. He needs to switch to the advertisement window (or pop up window), search for the close button and close it. In general, while browsing the Internet, we go through several websites at a time. If we need to close advertisements on every web site, it is a real pain.
What is the solution for the above problem? The answer is pop up blockers. Those are special plug-ins to the browser, which are available free of cost. Nowadays almost every up-to-date browser has a built-in pop up blocking feature as well. These pop up blockers will never allow the opening of any pop up window (unless configured to do so). And naturally the end user likes it and uses it most of the time.
Considering all of these situations, my primary advise would be to avoid using pop up windows as much as possible and use them only when really necessary.
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