Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: Javascript - Opening a new window, but the window name is getting lost with Facebook.com

2010-09-29 Thread John Campbell
>  If my theory is > wrong about facebook.com, can someone explain why they might be doing this > and what advantage is there to Facebook.com being more difficult than the > other websites? :-) Facebook, like many other sites, uses frame breaking code. Facebook's first line of javascript is: if(

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: Javascript - Opening a new window, but the window name is getting lost with Facebook.com

2010-09-29 Thread Cristian Baltatescu
Would using a div functioning as a "modal" window help? Kinda like what Facebook does with its notifications. ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: Javascript - Opening a new window, but the window name is getting lost with Facebook.com

2010-09-29 Thread David Roth
Thanks for your reply, John. Your code example didn't solve the problem it just opened duplicate tabs each time the link was clicked in Google Chrome & Firefox. Testing it with Safari on the Mac it didn't open a new tab, but a new window just as the code example I provided did. There were

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: Javascript - Opening a new window, but the window name is getting lost with Facebook.com

2010-09-29 Thread John Campbell
I don't know why this isn't working, but using window.open is a terrible practice. What is wrong with: http://face..."; target="friend">Become a friend on Facebook: If you do it that way it loads in a new tab, which is much faster than creating a new window, and doesn't irritate the user. Why w