As far as i know, none of the browsers will block a window.open popup if it's triggered from a click event. You could register a one-time-only 'click' listener on the document and do your window.open and window.focus (to pop under) in that handler.
Ben Barber On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, cancel bubble <cancelbub...@gmail.com>wrote: > Here at work, we do a fair bit of surveys on various sites via Survey > Monkey. The MO has always been to do a pop *under *window - focus the > parent, not the child/new window. I've stressed how I think this is slimey > (hiding the new window), but it is what it is and that's that :) > > Seems every time we have a survey, I'll get people coming to me because the > new window is getting blocked by *someone*. I've looked at the code > they're using and it's using the typical window.onload event. I tell them > this is probably why they're getting blocked as the pop up blockers are no > doubt seeing automatically opened windows as unwanted advertising. Because > the window onload and onunload events have been so abused, this is why we > have pop up blockers built into browsers as well as plugins. > > I thought about perhaps using a timer to delay execution of the pop up from > onload, but not sure if this will make any difference. I'm kind of guessing > not but I haven't tested it yet. I can't really test it as it's another > dept. that has access to the server, not me... I've also thought about using > onmousemove to trigger it (user-triggered event) and then nulling that out > but that seems even more stupid. > > I've suggested adding static survey promos which would be > *user-triggered*events as I think those might fare better in the world of pop > up blockers - > even though there's still no guarantee. So the user clicks to pop the new > window. > > I've also suggested removing JS from the equation altogether and having the > promos link straight to Survey Monkey. The counter there is that they've > lost where they are in our site (they could have deep-linked in). They > can't just easily close the Survey Monkey window to pick back up where they > left off in their task. Off the top of my head, I don't know if they can > use their back button to backtrack from the end of the Survey Monkey survey, > either. > > Is there a general consensus of best practices in regards to opening a new > pop up (or pop under) window with JavaScript with pop up blockers? > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
