<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Martin Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mart@degeneration.co.uk">mart@degeneration.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Chris Messina wrote:<br>
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You mentioned user testing. I'm surprised that an act initiated by a user<br>
would cause them to instinctively close the popup.<br>
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It's a popular trick in these days of popup blockers to trigger popup ads as a side-effect of an affirmative user action, thus bypassing the popup blocker.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm certainly aware of that trick -- but if we're talking about the RP offering a "sign in" link which takes them to the sign up page but ALSO pops an ad, that's insane (though not beyond most soulless advertising types).</div>
</div><div><br></div>Still, this suggests that a popup *button* might help a user realize or associate it with a popup flow whereas a simple text link might cause the knee-jerk window closing response.<div><br></div><div>
Will need to be tested, I suppose.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br> Open Web Advocate-at-Large<br><br><a href="http://factoryjoe.com">factoryjoe.com</a> # <a href="http://diso-project.org">diso-project.org</a><br>
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