close browser window

[olga p.]

Hi,

I would like to close the browser window when I open the new one. Now I'm
getting really irritation message: do I really want to close it, yes or no.
I just want to close the browser without the message.

Does anybody know the solution?

greatings,

Olga

[Harag]

Re: close browser window

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:13:25 +0100, "olga p." <olga.p2000@wan adoo.nl>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hi,
>
>I would like to close the browser window when I open the new one. Now I'm
>getting really irritation message: do I really want to close it, yes or no.
>I just want to close the browser without the message.
>
>Does anybody know the solution?[/color]

The only windows you can close via scripting are the windows that the
scripting opens.

you cannot close the original window that the user opens with a
shortcut... (well you can but the user has the choice as you can see).


HTH
Al

[Randy Webb]

Re: close browser window

Harag wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:13:25 +0100, "olga p." <olga.p2000@wan adoo.nl>
> wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>Hi,
>>
>>I would like to close the browser window when I open the new one. Now I'm
>>getting really irritation message: do I really want to close it, yes or no.
>>I just want to close the browser without the message.
>>
>>Does anybody know the solution?[/color]
>
>
> The only windows you can close via scripting are the windows that the
> scripting opens.
>
> you cannot close the original window that the user opens with a
> shortcut... (well you can but the user has the choice as you can see).[/color]

I think, for the sake of doing it, I will keep my mouth (and fingers)
shut this time, its been beaten to death.

Needless to say, you *can* [1] close that window without a prompt.
Search the archives.

[1] In about 80% (??) of circumstances.

P.S. The Unconditional Truth might surprise you.


--
Randy

[DJ WIce]

Re: close browser window

: The only windows you can close via scripting are the windows that the
: scripting opens.
:
: you cannot close the original window that the user opens with a
: shortcut... (well you can but the user has the choice as you can see).
In the past you could:

- open a child
- let the child replace the current location of the parent, not via parent..
but via the name you gave the parent.
- then try to close the parent via that name.

I may hope this bug is fixed by now for all browsers.
The browser (MSIE) just though the child became parent of it's parent.

Wouter

[Richard Cornford]

Re: close browser window

"DJ WIce" <contextmenu@dj wice.com> wrote in message
news:bu8n36$8js $1@news.tudelft .nl...
<snip>[color=blue]
>- open a child
>- let the child replace the current location of the parent, not via
>parent.. but via the name you gave the parent.
> - then try to close the parent via that name.
>
>I may hope this bug is fixed by now for all browsers.
>The browser (MSIE) just though the child became parent of it's parent.[/color]

That is a very convoluted way of exploiting the bug that Randy alluded
to, an probably less reliable than the usual[1] method.

Richard.

[1] Not usual in the sense that this is often done as it is a really
*bad* idea to shut down someone else's software without asking them
first, you never know what you might be destroying in the process.

[Randy Webb]

Re: close browser window

DJ WIce wrote:[color=blue]
> : The only windows you can close via scripting are the windows that the
> : scripting opens.
> :
> : you cannot close the original window that the user opens with a
> : shortcut... (well you can but the user has the choice as you can see).
> In the past you could:
>
> - open a child
> - let the child replace the current location of the parent, not via parent..
> but via the name you gave the parent.
> - then try to close the parent via that name.
>
> I may hope this bug is fixed by now for all browsers.
> The browser (MSIE) just though the child became parent of it's parent.[/color]

Its not even that difficult. I can close the original page (In certain
browsers), without opening a second window at all.


--
Randy

[Jim Ley]

Re: close browser window

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:06:22 -0500, Randy Webb
<hikksnotathome @aol.com> wrote:

[color=blue]
>Its not even that difficult. I can close the original page (In certain
>browsers), without opening a second window at all.[/color]

Yeah, but that's not really being anti-social

screen.bufferDe pth=2

now that's anti-social.

Jim.
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[Christopher Jeris]

Re: close browser window

jim@jibbering.c om (Jim Ley) writes:[color=blue]
> screen.bufferDe pth=2
> now that's anti-social.[/color]

Damn.

That's horrible.

Somebody should have each bone in their hands broken with
a hammer for specifying that.

(but did you mean 1? msdn seems to say that 2 is equivalent to -1,
and testing on IE6 verifies this)

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[Randy Webb]

Re: close browser window

Jim Ley wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:06:22 -0500, Randy Webb
> <hikksnotathome @aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>[color=green]
>>Its not even that difficult. I can close the original page (In certain
>>browsers), without opening a second window at all.[/color]
>
>
> Yeah, but that's not really being anti-social
>
> screen.bufferDe pth=2
>
> now that's anti-social.[/color]

<g> aint it though?

--
Randy

[rf]

Re: close browser window


"Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering. com> wrote in message
news:40082fb9.3 575651@news.cis .dfn.de...[color=blue]
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:06:22 -0500, Randy Webb
> <hikksnotathome @aol.com> wrote:
>
>[color=green]
> >Its not even that difficult. I can close the original page (In certain
> >browsers), without opening a second window at all.[/color]
>
> Yeah, but that's not really being anti-social
>
> screen.bufferDe pth=2
>
> now that's anti-social.[/color]

Stick it in your onUnload. Then the next site gets blamed :-)

Cheers
Richard

[Jim Ley]

Re: close browser window

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:39:15 GMT, jim@jibbering.c om (Jim Ley) wrote:
[color=blue]
>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:06:22 -0500, Randy Webb
><hikksnotathom e@aol.com> wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>Its not even that difficult. I can close the original page (In certain
>>browsers), without opening a second window at all.[/color]
>
>Yeah, but that's not really being anti-social
>
>screen.bufferD epth=2[/color]

Oops sorry, it looks like 2 isn't supported (no idea why) go for 1
instead.

Jim.
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