We've all been there, you're on your home computer looking for information on local blue tit populations, before you know it you're looking at a naked Smurf and a million pop-up windows spawn advertising online casinos, steamy video chats and penis enlargement.
For this reason browser popups have taken a bit of a battering, with all the major browsers including pop-up blocking functionality plus any number of pop-up blocking plugins. Us developers have been taught to avoid pop-ups like the plague.
Now everything is pop-up; shops, restaurants, cinemas, galleries, gigs, even pirates, and it seems like Google are trying to bring back the good old browser pop-up. A lot of their Chrome Experiments feature clever use of them; the brilliant interactive film The Wilderness Downtown, The Google Puzzle an online puzzle where you are tasked with finding the missing 'o' from their name, and most recently OK Go's video dance messenger All Is Not Lost.
Is the pop-up back?