New browsers like Firefox(my fav.), IE 7 are very intelligent, they will not allow the standard popup of window.onload or standard…
... <body onload="load_popup()"> ...
They have decent pop-up blockers, which we want to escape.
The new browsers, will consider it a spammed popup, and will kill it before its spawned. They will only create a popup if there is user interaction, as you can see, window.onload and body’s onload is not user interaction.
So, how should my advertiser’s pop-up be displayed? What user interaction should I wait before I get my popup?
There is a trick, you users must have crossed by but may be you have not identified it. You can pop a window on any user interaction, and such a action is not considered as spam pop by Firefox.
What we do is add an EventListener to a particular piece of content, which u are sure that the visitor is going to read. Browsing habits state that most user often keep clicking and selecting a particular text which they are reading. And that is our exact target.
Let us consider within our page, we’ve got a div with id named as “article”. What we’ll do is add a click event Listner to it.
<div id="article">
...
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function make_popup() {
// open any popup window you want.
url = "http://www.yahoo.com/";
window.open(url, "popwindow", "width=550,height=300,status=0,directories=0");
}
aid = document.getElementById("article");
aid.addEventListener("click", make_popup, false);
// Adds a click event for div tag with id article
// Which spawns the popup.
</script>
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire
and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the
followers of Mammon cowered in horror.