This is the Pop-Up Test Page

A pop-up should have appeared reading "This is a pop-up." You can view the source of this page to see how it was done using simple JavaScript.

If it did not open, you may have your browser set to block pop-ups, in which case you can't do this experiment.

The pop-up you see is a page called "popup.html." Here is a link to that page:

LINK TO POPUP.HTML (<- Note that it's purple -- as if you clicked on it)

And here's a link to another page (Dave Barry's blog) just to show the difference in color:

THIS IS AN UN-CLICKED LINK. (<- Note that it's blue -- the color of an un-clicked link)

As soon as you come to this page, the pop-up will load and the link to it will turn purple even though you never clicked on the link. (If it isn't purple immediately, reload the page -- it'll be purple.)

You never clicked the link, but your browser says you did -- it changed the color.

Ergo, Officer Mark Lounsbury's testimony was factually incorrect.

From page 290 of Julie Amero's trial transcript:

Mr. Smith: Detective, when you actively clicked on a link from the Web page, what are one [sic] of the detail signs that it was an active click of a link on a Web page?

Officer Lounsbury: Again, it would be a different color. It will change colors.

As we have just proven, Officer Lounsbury is absolutely wrong.

Let's go on, shall we?

Now we'll prove that you can, in fact, have an endless stream of porn pop-ups, despite the testimony of Robert Hartz, the information services manager for Norwich Public Schools.

Click the link below. You'll be taken to a page that simulates an endless stream of pop-ups. (I stop it at six -- no need to get carried away.)

Link to endless pop-up demo.