Lesley
Here there are no plans to implement SP2 at the moment but we are aware
of probable problems with it (and indeed with the Google toolbar and
other helpful 'pop-up blocker' systems that we have to locally
reconfigure). A database which is affected by SP2 is Westlaw because
its document delivery relies on pop-up windows (as does Taylor and
Francis e-books).
Louise
Louise Cole
Electronic Resources Team Leader
Health Sciences Library
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
tel. 0113 34 35502
fax. 0113 34 34381
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Sent: 25 May 2005 15:15
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Subject: Pop-up Blockers and Electronic Access
Hi,
We are experiencing some hassles with ejournal sites that use pop-up
blockers since Microsoft's Service Pack 2 was installed here. For those
that didn't know (and that applied to me until this week), with the
release of SP2, Pop-Up Blocking is now directly integrated into Internet
Explorer and by default Pop-Up Blocking is enabled within SP2. The two
cases we've recently identified are Extenza and the European Journal of
Palliative Care
- a Hayward Medical Communications publication.
Whilst it is easy enough to get round these issues on your own machine
by excluding specific sites from being blocked, the problem is not so
easy when managing a network of 1600+ computers for users without local
privilege.
What are people's views on the use of pop-up blockers and whether or not
they should be blocked? How have you handled this issue at your own
organization?
Cheers
Lesley
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