RE: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
;-) Carve that in stone somewhere please! ;-) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: J W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.ope

Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread J W
You know I would agree with you but this particular app it is better to alert the users... BTW. window.focus() just before the popup in the original browser window fixed the issue. Wored in both firefox and IE on windows. Jeff On 1/19/06, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>If

Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>If you aren't stuck on the idea of alerting the user about the session And the less you ask the user about things he doesn't kown about, the better will you application work ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/custo

RE: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:03 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results. >>Its actually for a pretty harmless in

RE: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results. I would do an absolute div that when show it self at the highest level once the timeout is about to occur. It won't catch a users's eye, but it

Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>Its actually for a pretty harmless inactivity timeout so the user doesn't loose session. I would use an HTTPrequest to do this. The advantage is that nothing shows up on the screen, and it works even with anti-popups. Look at XMLHttpRequest, even if no XML is involved. -- __

Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Everland III
I would do an absolute div that when show it self at the highest level once the timeout is about to occur. It won't catch a users's eye, but it will have the same desired result. Or even a confirm box that pops up to the user. Not as pretty but fast and easy to implement. Bob ~~~

Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread J W
Its actually for a pretty harmless inactivity timeout so the user doesn't loose session. Basically after the time elapsed, it pops up a screen with a warning. From that popup they then have a choice of keeping the session active closing the session or after another minute logs them out of my system

Re: SOT: Javascript question... Window.open... Weird results.

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Everland III
This most likely is due to stopping the popup that has been built into the browsers. They have stopped popups from opening when there is no action by the user to initiate the popup. Companies have found ways around this, which I'm sure if you did enough research you could fine it. I would find a