A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Why not to use a pop-up window

If you're using a pop-up window on your website, you're doing it wrong.
It's akin to using nested tables for display, fer chrissakes!

Reasons why it's wrong:

  • It's a poor user experience because the user doesn't get any of the usual browser functionality in the pop-up window, like the back button or the icon that tells you the page is loading.
  • I'm sure I'll think of some more later