Pop-ups

I can’t find anywhere on Iris web browser anything about pop-ups. Is this a feature that Iris (RISC OS version) can’t do?

I encountered a problem using Iris to submit an online form for claiming a ‘seat guarantee’ refund. After clicking on the submit button, several litle discs danced round in a loop, or appeared to, interminably. Trying this with Firefox on Linux, the same thing happened the first time; but, on a second attempt, a message appeared within the same window saying ‘failure’ with some possible reasons, one of which was that pop-ups may be blocked. Sure enough, in preferences, pop-ups were blocked except for two other websites. So I allowed pop-ups for this LNER website and then I was able to submit. Again a message appeared in the same window, but this time saying success. Do you call that a pop-up? No separate window popped up.

So was it a sort of ‘in page pop-up’ that Iris can’t do?

It might be some sort of weird redirect that behaves like a pop-up? I used to get messages about this from Firefox until I told it to disallow things like that.

However, given that pop-ups are evil, have been horribly abused, numerous browsers block them by default, and there are plenty of other options (such as iframes and things like embedded bank authorisation used), it’s rather incompetent of a site in 2021 to be depending upon pop-ups.

However…

for claiming a ‘seat guarantee’ refund.

<cynic> There’s also the possibility that it is entirely on purpose. </cynic>

However, given that pop-ups are evil, have been horribly abused, numerous browsers block them by default

Send users to a site with a building wide Wi-Fi setup, including a guest facility¹ that only requires acknowledgement of the AUP. Lock the supplied tablets down and set them to block pop-ups.
Set of frustrated users unable to a simple scroll and click to join the guest network.
No need for pop-up support, obviously.

¹ Because the Tory “person” in charge said there will be free Wi-Fi at all sites (sub-text " we aren’t funding it")

How about Iris? Can it handle pop-ups? There is nothing, as far as I can see, in Choices about pop-ups or even cookies.

How about Iris? Can it handle pop-ups? There is nothing, as far as I can see, in Choices about pop-ups or even cookies.

Cookies are saved in a text file buried in !boot.choices.www.iris – there is not a front end for this currently
I have seen pop-ups when being asked for my cookies preferences by a new site I might be visiting.

Please remember !Iris is still technically a beta version and still being developed by one person.