{"id":101,"date":"2008-05-05T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-05-05T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:05:19","slug":"county-advises-to-disable-pop-up-blocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/county-advises-to-disable-pop-up-blocker\/","title":{"rendered":"County Advises to Disable Pop-Up Blocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m came across a website for a county this afternoon.  At first, I tried to click on some of the links in the navigation, but that didn&#8217;t work.  Then, I noticed the the warning at the bottom of the page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some links on this web page\/site will be blocked if you have a &#8220;pop-up blocker&#8221; running on your computer.  You will need to &#8220;Allow Blocked Content&#8221;, or make www.*****.org a &#8220;trusted site&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>C&#8217;mon.  Why not just open the link in the existing window instead of forcing the user to open a new window?  After all, this is pretty much the way the rest of the Internet works, except for those site that created a need to install a pop-up blocker in the first place.  Then again, we don&#8217;t install pop-up blockers any more since Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari all ship with pop-up blockers built-in nowadays.  Don&#8217;t fight the trend.    Pop-up blockers are in place for a reason.  Most people probably will not have noticed the pop-up blocker note and have thought your website was broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m came across a website for a county this afternoon. At first, I tried to click on some of the links in the navigation, but that didn&#8217;t work. Then, I noticed the the warning at the bottom of the page: Some links on this web page\/site will be blocked if you have a &#8220;pop-up blocker&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[90,140,187],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}