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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by rtpg on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:55AM (#12943896)
A good use case is linking to a FAQ item in a form. You don't want to navigate away, but the item is usually small, so a pop-up in a small window is good.
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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by jimmaswell on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:35AM (#12944104)
A frame that displays the item you clicked on on the right, with the faq links on the left, would be great for this use case. The only thing I think was wrong with frames was that the main url didn't point to the frame you had open, like url#framename.
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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by JadeNB on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:01AM (#12943934)
Why not have some sort of CSS / JavaScript trickery so that the FAQ item can be displayed or hidden without any sort of pop-up at all? Anyone who browses with JavaScript off is tech-savvy enough to open up the page in a new tab. (Anyway, for me, this definitely falls under the "web site thinks it's the best UI; I don't", but I recognise that this is almost by definition a matter of personal opinion.)
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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by jimmaswell on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:30AM (#12944080)
This was the use case for frames.
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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by Navarr on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:54AM (#12944211)
And that still works today.

The types of popups that are blocked are the ones that open automatically.

Is there a good use case for automatic popups?

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