[Filterproxy-devel] Re: New module for FilterProxy

[Bob M. <mce...@us...>]

John F Waymouth [way...@wp...] wrote:
> >
> > Heh, usually when there's an ad-related article there, I post some
> > blatent self promotion, but I didn't this time because I haven't written
> > a anti-popup rule yet.  ;)  I prolly should.
> >
>=20
> Ok, so, I was bored, and wrote a very broad rule for popups, which not
> only zaps em, but also tries to keep scripts using the window.open
> function working:
>=20
> rewrite regex /window\.open\(/ as eval("null //" +

Clever, clever.

> (note that space after the plus)
>=20
> This has the following advantages:
>=20
> * no need to try to find the whole window.open() call (matching parens,
> ick)
> * Convinces javascripts that window.open returned null
> * Accepts whatever args they passed to window.open() seamlessly (the args
> after the first aren't evalled, and anything in the first arg is
> commented)
>=20
> I didn't add an "inside encloser <script>" because that seems to replace
> the entire <script> block (bug?).

Yes, that's a bug, I'll look into it.  This really should have the
inside encloser <script>.

> Lemme know what you think.

Looks good.  You sent this just as I was trying to find a site that has
popups.  Do you know of any?

Cheers,
-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsm...@st...)=20
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics