Re: A Popup! In Mozilla!

[Charles Richmond <cmr () iisc com>]

On Jul 21, 2004, at 4:56 PM, John Dowling wrote:

> I disagree.
>
> Initially, the image used in that popup actually comes
> from a different server, but that's trivial.  What I
> see as a bigger issue is that blocking the image from
> the server leaves the user with an empty div block
> covering the page, and blocking the site serving the
> div content could essentially render the div
> 'uncloseable'.  Of course, this is more along the
> lines of browseability, and does not seem to have any
> very obvious security implications above and beyond
> what can be served via a page without the annoying
> <div>.

You have a good point so I went back to take a look. There
are 2 factors that ameliorate that issue. The first is that I
am unlikely to want to click through on a page that is doing
that and even less likely to want my users to do so :) The
second is that the "Nuke Anything"  Firefox extension was
able to remove the <div> with a simple right-click -> remove


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