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Stefan, Thanks for clarifying. Hmm, so am I missing something in my use of dhcp.msu.edu (so far I have gladly evaded any use of vpn, though I don't know how long that will last)? I have *never* bothered to allow popups for dhcp.msu.edu, and AFAIK never lacked any functionality. Yes, from time to time I have noticed a popup from dhcp or other MSU sites, but I have alwasy assumed that was just to present some triviality that I could do without, and simply ignored it with no appararent loss -- if it's something important, then a web site should find a better way to inform me than by using a popup. (But at least those popups are less a nuisance than the new browser tabs/windows in EBS, another "design feature" that completely baffles me.) Anyway, so do I need to configure these settings for every browser I use (FF, IE, Safari, Opera) on every device that I use (deskttop PC, several laptops, iPod, iPad)? That is quite a bit of user labor just to make things "friendly". Seems to me that the web designers could instead make their applications more "friendly" by not requiring popups. But then this is just the ranting of another simpleton user. -- dkm At 7/7/2011 11:59 AM Thursday, Stefan Ozminski wrote: >Adding those two entries to allow popups is not about whether a web >application *should* use popups. It is about making a browser >configuration that works in the most friendly way for the user. >dhcp.msu.edu and vpn.msu.edu both trigger popups that disappear by >themselves, but when blocked generate warning messages in the browser. >Wireless login (at least on the old MSUnet AP's that we have at KBS) >triggers a popup that provides a logout button, which can be useful >when you are dealing with old AP's. There are other pages at MSU >that have popups, but I don't remember all of them. I have not >noticed popups in EBS, just new browser windows. > >-Stefan > >On 7/7/2011 11:06 AM, David McFarlane wrote: >>At 7/6/2011 12:26 PM Wednesday, Stefan Ozminski wrote: >>>In the package I configured the following trusted sites: >>> >>>Allow popups: >>> >>> *.msu.edu >>> 35.8.2.149 >> >>Why should a web application have to use pop-ups in the first place? >>Couldn't it be designed just as well to not use pop-ups? What am I missing? >> >>-- dkm >>