Because it gives you more room to work... the toolbars and such are disabled in the popup window so you get maximum work area and minimum distraction.

Just the same, I also prefer to use the /umbraco/umbraco.aspx url directly and opening umbraco in a tab rather than a new window.

Since I work on so many different umbraco-based sites I've created a toolbar button to launch the umbraco ui for the site I'm currently viewing. Simply create a new item on your browser's toolbar and set the location/url to the following:

[code]javascript:url%20=%20window.location.protocol%20+%20'//'%20+%20window.location.hostname;%20window.location%20=%20url%20+%20'/umbraco/umbraco.aspx';[/code]

Then, when you're viewing any page of an umbraco-based site... click the toolbar button and you're in the umbraco editor in no time.

cheers,
doug.

Ah that's a nice trick.

Still the whole concept of working in a popup window seem very nineties. I can't recall a single web application that promotes the use of popups.

I also think, opening umbraco popup is obsolete, if you need more room, you can use F11

Petr

When i set up a new site I go to config/urlrewriting.config and add:
[code]

redirectMode="Permanent"
redirect="Application"
rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
virtualUrl="^~/login"
destinationUrl="~/umbraco/login.aspx"
ignoreCase="true" />
[/code]

This allows me to enter sitename.com/login to get save a bit of typing.

Also good for my content editors

We'll remove the popup in 4.1. The main reason for the popup was legacy - we had some dialogues integrated as popups (instead of the modal trick we use now). This meant that if clients were using popup blockers it wouldn't show - instead they get the browser warning about allowing popups. The problem was that if they said "sure, allow popups" the page would refresh and they would loose existing changes. Hence the trick (more than screen real estate which just was a nice side effect).

I always just call /umbraco/umbraco.aspx directly instead of /umbraco, but others simply delete default.aspx and rename umbraco.aspx to default.aspx. It works just fine.

Cheers,
Niels...

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