Maybe I'm missing something here but I'm not sure why you consider it more
user friendly to pop-up a window (and have it disappear automatically). If I
was a user I would be thinking "what the hell was that?". And if their
connection was fast enough that they don't even notice the window pop-up &
disappear, and just see the main page refresh how different is that to the
'one page and use a "middle-man" technique'?
Ok, i admit my donkeyness. :-P It takes the same time to popup, close and refresh, than it does to redirect and refresh.
One thing that popup would prevent would be the browser history, i mean, if that popup method worked, if the user clicked on the "back" browser button, it would take him to where he came from. If i use that redirect method, the back button takes him to the redirect. Still trying to figure that one out. Would be nice to make the browser history "forget" that redirect. :-P
But you are right, Jason, time wise i was wrong in going for the popup, not to mention those other very relevant facts john mentioned too.
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