Windows XP SP2 Changes that affect web pages
 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/d...l/xpsp2web.asp

- ActiveX controls: the modal dialog will no longer popup automatically. Users must specifically click on the pageholder to install controls
- Downloadable Files: The file download ability can only be initiated by a user click. Pages that say "your download will begin in 10 seconds" and have an ad before launching the file will now fail.
- Popup Windows: These may now only be initiated by a user action, not automatically, and only one popup will be created based on that user action... so a popup cannot spawn a popup, even if the original was spawned by a click.
- MS Java Virtual Machine: This is no longer distributed.
- Browser Windows Alterations: You can no longer do a fullscreen window, it will only launch a maximized window. You can no longer move the statusbar, titlebar or toolbar off of the visible screen.

When is it coming out?

sounds like good stuf..... from a surfer standpoint.

Won't that hurt traffic brokers that sell exit popups???

people did it to themselves Now it looks like you will have to have good content and a pleasing site to make money.
I say power to the surfer......

As I know, july 21, 2004

Wow, those are nice from the surfer stand point. That might hurt some of the "popup hell" programs traffic.

Question is how many new security holes will this create?

Idiot.

Bottom line not good news for the adult biz.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Nah, I really don't think that signups overall will decrease just because we can't launch pop up hells or auto install active x shit on people's machines.
I think the surfers overall will still spend the same amount of money, but WHO gets that money will change a bit.

Yup, most people don't even know what a popop blocker is. Exit sales are going to drop, that's for sure.

Ive been running the various beta and RC versions since about January or February.,. Love it. Not sure how it will affect the biz but as a surfer its a Godsend :thumbsup

from my interpretation you can still make an exit popup

The end of MediaTickets! :thumbsup

Most of the used explore are never updated. Most of the surfers use the window they have now and will not change in a long time.
So it will take some time before the popup killer will take effect.

But nomatter what a popup killer will allways have a hole, where the right java code will be able to make a popup. :)

I dont know, but I dont think much will happen.
Maybe reduced payouts from PPS sponsors since they cant load popups, but there will probably be ways to go around that.

A good thing is that more surfers will click on sponsor links because they know they wont get stuck in a popup-hell.

GOOD

It will take a looooooong time.

you got a ton of people that think toolbars and other stuff of this type, that's the way the internet is. Poor bastards

Short term maybe less spawned exit sales.

Long term less fear from surfers to surf at ease and click links.

More real marketing, return to naturally "sticky" sites, more steady income.

It's all good from my point of view.. I never used any of those nasty tricks anyway.

I think you are right about that. A large number of people buy computers and don't know a damn thing about it. They don't update anything, don't even know they should.