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Q: Tracking Pop-up window blocking. ( No Answer,   2 Comments )
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Subject: Tracking Pop-up window blocking.
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: geiger_steve-ga
List Price: $2.50
Posted: 23 May 2006 10:36 PDT
Expires: 22 Jun 2006 10:36 PDT
Question ID: 731715
I host a web site that has a user initiated pop up window for our video content.

There are browsers that are Pop-up Blocking the user initiated video player page.

Is there a way I can track, (Omniture, log files or other)  What
number/% of users/browsers  are blocking that window?

I want to know a metric that would justify keeping or discontining the
use of the Pop-up player.
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Subject: Re: Tracking Pop-up window blocking.
From: dotnetwebguru-ga on 04 Jun 2006 15:29 PDT
 
Copy and paste this before the </head> tag

<script type="text/JavaScript" language="JavaScript">
 var win = window.open('','','width=1,height=1,left=0,top=0,scrollbars=no');
 if(win)
    var popupBlocked = false
 else
    var popupBlocked = true
 win.close()
</script>


Now, copy and paste this anywhere between <body> & </body> tag

<script type="text/JavaScript" language="JavaScript">
if(popupBlocked)
  alert('We have detected that you are using popup blocking software.');
</script>


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Subject: Re: Tracking Pop-up window blocking.
From: dotnetwebguru-ga on 04 Jun 2006 15:42 PDT
 
Sorry left out this text in my previous post. You could have the
javascript detect the popup blocker & ask the user to disable. If you
like to track this, just add the code to insert into database/ xml
file before alert('....').

Hope this helps.

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