The web around the late 90s and early 2000s had some really sketchy stuff. I think the difference is that it used to be the sleazy underbelly. Now it's accepted as mainstream.
replyMy local 'newspaper' website is chock full of scam adverts. The print version is dignified. The website people, somehow, turn a blind eye.
And I got an advert on Youtube this week using sexually explicit language to sell pills.
Feels like standards, and expectations, have really slipped.
Opening a popup needs JS though.
replyNot with the new popover API.
replyThis doesn't look like it gives websites something they couldn't do before with CSS and JS.
replyI'm pretty sure it does but maybe I'm wrong, I had never tried to create popovers/popups using CSS. What's neat[†] about the popovers API is that it doesn't need any JS, you just write a couple of HTML attributes and voila, a popover/popup. They will run with JS disabled as well.
replyhttps://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
[†] Neat for me building things like tooltips and dropdowns into my web apps without using JS; not neat for annoying people with popups.