On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 17:01, Andrew M Hoerter wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 May 2003, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
>
> > I had forgotten how awful the Internet was for most people until my
> > laptop broke while I was on a business trip and my only Internet access
> > was through Windows/MSIE in the hotel's "business center."
> >
> > All those popups!
>
> Indeed. I've used Mozilla for quite a while now, and every time I have
> occasion to use MSIE instead, I wonder how I ever lived without an option
> to disable unsolicited JavaScript "open new window" requests.
>
> The funny part is how so many advertisers feel threatened and "violated"
> by this option... as if it's somehow mandatory to execute any and all code
> on a webpage, regardless of browser capabilities or user preferences.
>
Sometimes, not often, but sometimes I wish the browser was still mosaic,
and your only choices of color for html was black on gray.
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