ckevinc

[Wake up early]..."to post a squeeze page on Hacker News"

Just to add to this - the javascript event used to capture leaving the open page seems to be: window.onbeforeunload - it would be great if Chrome was able to disable that function entirely, but it doesn't seems possible.

This seems like a great feature, and sadly missing from Chrome.

I have thought of two types of insidious activities on sites today, the onclick popup and the confirm on close.

The onclick popup can be managed (to a small extent) in Chrome by holding the CTRL key and clicking when you have a sense a popup is coming. It doesn't cover all of them, but if you're familiar with a site's actions, you might catch 70% or more of them.

I'm not sure what creates the confirm on close, but I see it on sites that auto play video advertisements (among others). Once you try and close the window/tab - Chrome displays a prompt - requiring you to close the prompt, and then close the tab. Annoying.

I thought of one simple idea in Chrome - have a key combination (perhaps CTRL+SHIFT) that we can hold down while clicking on a link or possible popup, that will (a) open the link in a new tab and (b) NOT load the page or any elements. It simply presents an empty page with the url that we could copy or a tab we can close.

This would add a measure of control and hopefully doesn't break anything.

You're very welcome. I'm reading what I've written and it seems overly critical of your work. I don't want you to feel that's the case; it does look like a wonderful tool and, in the case of a developer or a web freelancer, may be very useful indeed.

I look forward to seeing how this project unfolds and I appreciate you taking the time to read my suggestions.

Kevin

How does a publisher get on your list?

So, I tested this on Windows XP and you'll likely have to do a check for .NET 3.5 and have it installed before the application gets copied. As per Devexpress:

"This may happen if you try to launch an XAF Windows Forms application at the workstation with Windows XP or an older Windows version installed. These systems do not have Microsoft .NET Framework installed by default. Download and install the .NET framework of the appropriate version from the Microsoft website (version 3.5 for Windows XP or version 2.0 for earlier Windows versions) or upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7."

These things are brutal. You'll loose a possible customer the second he/she sees a non-descript error like this.

I'd love to know how the author made the text larger/bold .. looks like a header tag <h1> but Throwww doesn't appear to accept that.

I think anecdotal evidence is good to a point.. we can only know so much before starting to make larger generalizations.

In all this, there is some sense that we (as Canadians) are fundamentally different than our American friends. I do agree (it's just a feeling) that these perceived differences are holding us back in many ways.

Could this be culture? Could this be our more left-leaning ideologies? Could there be some small thinking involved?

As a Canadian who was invited to partake in the American workforce more than once but decided on staying here - I believe Canada has more to offer than America.