Perdue, Blake wrote:
We've gotten a lot of complaints lately that popup windows spawned by a SWF are getting blocked by pop-up blockers, even though they are user initiated. It seems the newer flash players (v8, v9) or perhaps the new pop-up blockers (Firefox, Google, etc) have changed the way they operate - this didn't used to be a problem for us.
Yes, this can be a problem -- different browser extensions work in different ways, and respond to different JavaScript events, so it's hard to make a one-size-fits-all solution.
One bit of consolation: someone who installs a rogue window-blocker will be visiting more sites than just yours, so they would become familiar with any feedback the blocker and/or browser offer about windows the browser didn't open.
Another tack you might try, to give visitors consistent feedback about what their browser isn't doing, might be to try a localConnection test from the original SWF to the popup SWF, after waiting a suitable interval... if the second SWF never opened, then the first SWF can advise that there may be a window-blocker in the visitor's browser.
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