Reply to : Bill Thayer
>> Popups are perceived as irritating by users only if (a) they pop up
on their own; (b) they are extraneous to the subject matter of the site.:
in sum, if they're spam. <<
Yes, the thing that really annoys me is something that 'pops up' when I
hover over a particular lin
Hi Peter & all,
Following your posting last November, I have contacted Mohammad Bagheri.
With his information and pictures, and the stimulating help of Reinhold
Kriegler from Bremen, I have added a page about this new dial to my site.
Actually two pages, as the pictures on the construction and in
On my G4 Mac, I don't see any "popup windows" using either Netscape
7.01 or Internet Explorer 5.1. I do have JavaScript enabled.
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Should we change the graphics to JPEGs? Also, do you think the
popups are user-friendly?
On my own website, after what I like to think was careful thought and
experiment, and feedback from the first users:
- JPG for all color photos
- GIF for all drawings, symbols, schematics; for anything
Hi John,
On my iMac, using Netscape 4.7, the pop-up windows don't function well.
** They require Javascript, which not all users have enabled.
** They block part of the menu item selected.
** They disappear if one clicks on the main window.
** They don't seem to work after the first time. (I
Hi John & all,
I think your site looks very nice now - and functional!
> Do any of you have any format preference (GIF or
> JPEG) for websites? Should we change the graphics to
> JPEGs? Also, do you think the popups are user-
> friendly?
My rule-of-thumb is:
- use JPG for photos, i.e. all pict
