Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play...
by xenadu02 on Sunday November 13, 2016 @01:03PM
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Not only is the analogy correct, the problem has the same solution: require evidence of user intent. Pop ups work just fine when spawned as a result of a user clicking on a link. Videos can start playing when a user taps or clicks on them.
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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play...
by JadeNB on Sunday November 13, 2016 @02:36PM
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> Not only is the analogy correct, the problem has the same solution: require evidence of user intent.
You make a very good point, but I'm not totally sure that it is the complete answer. I agree that it is clearly right for my browser to display pop-ups, and play videos, when I indicate my intent that it do so. My question was not whether that should happen, but whether any users want pop-ups as the method of interaction (or information display). Although I definitely want, in an operational sense, PeopleSoft to show me a pop-up when I click on the relevant button, because that's the only way to get to certain information, what I really want, in an aspirational sense, is for it to display the information in some other way, without a pop-up at all.
Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play...
by tempestn on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:29AM
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The ability to launch popups (on user click) is vital for our "Direct Results"[1] option at searchtempest.com, although admittedly that's quite an edge case.
http://support.searchtempest.com/hc/en-us/articles/205166847...