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there's no way any one engineer can understand all the myriad ways users will want the thing to behave.

Maybe the engineer, supported by their manager, could make options for the questionable functionality. Checkboxes allowing the user to choose which types of popups (or other functionality) to allow. Maybe options are not profitable enough (re: commercial coder salary or open-source coder time).

/me kicks the Orinoco wireless driver and SpySweeper client and server which wasted his whole day at work because they didn't have that I needed.

Bitt, don't worry, I bet IE 7 will be a "total rewrite", so all those hacks will be fixed.... and thousands more hacks introduced. (a MS rep spoke at my work a while back, proclaiming that something (Longhorn?) was a "total rewrite", met by the groans of the audience.)
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