How would you create a popup window.

Millay · 11-03-2005, 13:03

Hi all

How would you suggest creating a resized pop up browser window when a user clicks on a form, as I guess there are now different things to consider with pop up blockers etc...

or would you suggest keeping to a full screen if you can..

TheBlueRaja · 11-03-2005, 13:05

The best method at the moment for creating a pop-up that will not be blocked by default by eiter IE or Firefox is to create a flash applet that spawns a popup window.

Thats your answer.

Bifta · 11-03-2005, 13:39

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Originally Posted by Millay

Hi all

How would you suggest creating a resized pop up browser window when a user clicks on a form, as I guess there are now different things to consider with pop up blockers etc...

or would you suggest keeping to a full screen if you can..

Use this http://javascript.internet.com/gener...up-window.html works fine with SP2's popup blocker.

Matth · 12-03-2005, 21:54

Probably the most "block resistant" popup, is actually a DHTML flyover - not a traditional popup.

The common blocking methods are:
1. Block/kill unrequested windows (common in toolbars that do this)
2. Search and destroy any scripts with window.open (can be defeted by script obfuscation , script rewriting, eval )
3. Block all script

Richard M · 12-03-2005, 23:42

You are all evil.

Bifta · 13-03-2005, 02:13

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Originally Posted by Richard M

You are all evil.

Why? I use popups on all of my property search databases to display full size images of properties uploaded by clients, they're happy with it and they've never had a single complaint from any of their hundreds of thousands of individual customers so I'm at a loss as to why you're complaining.

Stuart · 13-03-2005, 02:29

Popups that display when a user clicks a link (like displaying a full size image of a property) are OK. It those that pop up when the page loads/page is closed, or at random intervals that IMO are bad. DHTML flyovers are the most irritating.

Richard M · 13-03-2005, 10:00

Ditto.

Matth · 13-03-2005, 17:51

A lot of the toolbar and add-on popup stoppers tend to lack differentiation between wanted and unwanted popups - especially in free versions.

I got so used to the synchronicity of a blocker which used SHIFT as a momentary release, when SHIFT-Clicking to open a link in a new Window, that I never noticed any weaknesses in that approach, in fact, I returned to it from the rather unreliable script based blocking, and I haven't seen a popup or popunder since - the DHTML flyovers will be answered by complete script blocking, if they get too bad!

Millay · 13-03-2005, 21:07

All i want to do is create a form tha6t when the user submits it, it pops up a confirmation form that runs a little... nothing evil

Matth · 14-03-2005, 22:32

Trouble is, popups are so misused that you can almost guarantee that the majority of people will have some kind of blocker.

Millay · 14-03-2005, 22:42

This is my ponderence, seems a little silly having a whole page with just two lines of txt after the user submits the form

iron25 · 15-03-2005, 01:10

If you just want to use javascript then the following command will work fine. All you need to do is put some note on the page indicating that a popup window will occur and users will need to bypass any blockers that they are running.

window.open('1.html','','menubar=no,height=100,wid th=300,top=10,left=10');

The code above will popup a window 300x100 at the coordinates specified in top & left. It removes the scrollbars and the menu & address bars.