IE 5.00 & JS woes

[Da Costa Gomez]

Hi All,

Would it be safe to presume IE 5.00 is less than ideal to do popups?
Compared to Mozilla (any) & Opera it really smells!

Anyone else got the same experience?

TIA
Fermin DCG

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: IE 5.00 & JS woes

Da Costa Gomez <dcg@xs4all.n l> writes:
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> Would it be safe to presume IE 5.00 is less than ideal to do popups?[/color]

What would the problem be?

I don't have access to IE5.0, but I would be surpriced if window.open
didn't work at all ... so what is "less than ideal"?
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> Compared to Mozilla (any) & Opera it really smells![/color]

Both Moz and Opera have built-in popup stoppers, so they could be seen
as less ideal when it comes to pop-ups.

/L
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[Da Costa Gomez]

Re: IE 5.00 &amp; JS woes

Grant Wagner wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Presumably you are passing something to window.open() that is not supported
> in Internet Explorer 5.0. So the first thing to do is:
>
> var _properties = '';
> aWindow = window.open(... );
>
> If the error still occurs, add:
>
> var _detailWindowTi tle = 'x';
>
> then:
>
> var _popURL = 'about:blank';[/color]
It was the url.
Is it indeed correct that it HAS to look like
"http://...../app?service=pag e/ViewProducts" ?
Moz, Firebird & Opera accept "/app?service=pag e/ViewProducts" and work
just fine.[color=blue]
>
> At some point you'll identify the problem. I note you're calling the second
> parameter "_detailWindowT itle". It's *not* the title of the new window, it's
> the name of the new window, and should not contain any spaces (although some
> browsers may be more forgiving if you've included spaces in the name).[/color]
Thx for setting me straight on this one, hadn't realized.[color=blue]
>
> Also, why are you using all global variables instead of passing the url,
> name and attributes to the popup() function?[/color]
Granted I can also stick them in directly but this way I could be
setting these parameters from basically anywhere (even from two
different pages if I like) prior to actually calling the function (I'm
aware of the 'weirdish' nature of it but then again looking at the JS
implementation across the browsers *what* is weird? Really. ;))[color=blue]
> --
> | Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>
>
> * Client-side Javascript and Netscape 4 DOM Reference available at:
> *
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>
> * Internet Explorer DOM Reference available at:
> *
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...ence_entry.asp
>
> * Netscape 6/7 DOM Reference available at:
> * http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/
> * Tips for upgrading JavaScript for Netscape 6/7 and Mozilla
> * http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-deve...upgrade_2.html
>
>[/color]