Launch popup windows properly

No real news to report, other than that this evening we're going to check out a couple of flat shares in the area, for potential permanent accommodation. Hopefully by next week, our living conditions will be (at least) habitable.

Surfing some websites, I stumbled upon the site for Agency Republic via ventilate.ca. This website is a prime example of why popup windows, married with a web browser that has built-in ad blocking capability, are becoming increasingly useless in terms of reaching a maximum audience.

I have popup windows disabled in my browser. When I visit a site that tries to launch a popup window, I receive an alert in the status bar - clicking on this alert gives me the option to add this site to a list which in future will be allowed to launch unrequested popups.

The problem with the Agency Republic site however, is that they redirect across three domain names in the process to launch the site in a popup. ie. agencyrepublic.com redirects to agencyrepublic.com.futuresite.register.com which in turn links to arepublic.com - all within a frameset. Which made it virtually impossible for me to view the site without viewing the source of the pages to find the URLs.

How annoying. If you need to create a popup window, at least do it properly.

More games to make your day at work even less productive: The Lego Treasure Hunt by Martin Sears, and Operation Slaps by NWYH.