And, on a related note, if anyone wants to buy some advertising, please let me know.

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just out of curiosity, how much cash did that add bring in, like less than a buck a month, etc.

on a semi-related note, the banners on the top of the page don't work, they go to a 404 style page

So I already regret it.

That's interesting. When I first enabled InScript filtering in iCab, it tried to stop pages opening new windows by themselves, but still allow them to do so under user control (such as a link). However, it used to block some legitimate window opening, and the option was off by default.

I wonder if OmniWeb is smart enough to not make mistakes and block any good pages? I know iCab now has site-based filtering, so I can add sites for which I want to have that feature turned off. I can also filter normal ad banners, which is nice too.

But, oh, there are more reasons why IE sucks. One of which is its form editing, and that damnable auto-select-whole-word as I drag - I can't imagine that being useful to anyone and wish I could turn the bloody thing off. And don't get quantumfluff and Steen started on the matter, either :)

JavaScript can be used for good or evil. If you think about it, the purpose of any application is to take control of your computer.
On the Macintosh, most browsers (including IE) let you suppress pop-up windows that are not triggered by a mouse click, without disabling anything else in JavaScript. As far as I can tell, though, the Windows version of IE does not have that feature.

So since they're the ones most affected, maybe the Windows users here should pool together and give Snaggy $150 every month

As for greycat, well, some sites need it for site selection pop-up menus (I recall, from when JS was badly implemented in iCab), and it has other uses, such as opening new windows for images, and the like. Generally, I have no problem with it, and with pop-up ads blocked, no problem at all now.

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If you think about it, the purpose of any application is to take control of your computer.

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No, the purpose of installing a program on my computer is to give me better control of my computer. There is a major difference between running code locally after I take explicit action to install it; and running code that I happen to find somewhere on a web site, whose purpose may be malicious, automatically. Also, Javascript usually runs completely invisibly; it does its nefarious work in the dark shadowy netherworld of your browser. If you knew what it was doing, you would almost certainly not approve.

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well, some sites need it for site selection pop-up menus

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Then those sites are badly written. They will not work with all browsers. There is no excuse for that.

A quick Google search for javascript evil turned up several pages, including this interesting one.

And yes, typically, JavaScript has never done me any wrong, although on my surfing I have encountered a Seeker trojan (or whatever F-Secure calls it) on two occasions, that spawns lots of new IE windows and brings it to a halt. However, irregardless of the first time, I brought the second on myself due to some very unsavoury surfing. For the most part, JS is not abused, so I do wonder where you go to pick up these evils, greycat? ;-)

Incidentally, I was going over a site today I'm working on, and checking and fixing all the server-side validation, for people with no JavaScript to validate client-side (with you in mind, for one :) (I hate server-side validation - there's the ever-present risk that clicking back will lose the form (aside: Hrm, maybe I should look into returning a prefilled form with the errors marked, well, probably not actually (cause I'm lazy, for one thing)))

- Uilleann

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<next afternoon> There, when posting that, I felt bad for being lazy, and I have indeed sorted it out so that it hands the form back with an error. Yay. My laziness is not limitless after all… ;)