Off: pop up killer software and judgetrev.com

[pauleatonjones]

As a newish computer user ( and Mac user) can anyone explain in simple
but not patronising terms what I need to do to stop pop-ups/ I'd be
really grateful. Paul.
On Friday, Mar 19, 2004, at 21:17 Europe/London, Jeff Thompson wrote:

> trev wrote:
>
>>   Sorry an' all that - but from a professional's point of view - lose
>> the
>> whizzy things, and keep the content concise simple and to the point.
>> (I've
>> not looked at it in any other browser other than IE6, but frankly, if
>> it
>> works in that I wouldn't worry about anything else. When people tell
>> you
>> "Yes, very nice, but 5% of people don't use Internet Explorer", you
>> reply
>> "5% isn't significant, 5% is an error margin.")
>
> That's silly.  IE is a malfunctioning twit on Macintosh OS X, isn't
> so great on older versions of the mac os, and isn't available at all
> for linux and bsd fans.  I'd recommend giving a site a once-over using
> Mozilla, and if it looks good on Mozilla AND IE, then saying it's
> done.  If it looks good on Mozilla it's going to look
> good on a lot of browsers on a lot of platforms.  But if it's
> horribly broken for Mozilla and requires IE, then you're certainly
> shutting out linux and bsd users as well as the majority of mac
> users who have given up on IE for Mac just as Microsoft has.
>
> That said, the site runs great on Mozilla / Firefox.  Nicely done.
>