[thelist] Odd Netscape 4.7 behavior during page load with popup
Rob Oviatt
applebyweb at nb.aibn.com
Wed Jul 18 14:51:47 CDT 2001
My boss has had me design and a popup that loads using an onLoad command on
our front page. Basically how it works is the person comes to our site,
their main browser loads the main page, and a small 300x200 popup appears
with an add offering a free mousepad. They have the choice of either
closing the popup or clicking on order, at which time the popup closes and
a form is loaded into the main browser window.
The problem I'm having is with Netscape 4.7 on both Mac and Windows
systems. As soon as the popup opens, the main window browser stops updating
it's display. It is still loading in all the graphics and such (according
to activity in status bar), but it doesn't display them. I suspect that
this might have to do with the fact that as soon as the popup opens, the
main browser window is no longer the focus and that NS4.7 won't redraw it's
display once a page has been loaded (which would only reload the popup and
start the cycle all over).
I think a timer in the popup function causing a delay in the opening up of
the popup might do the trick, but the page is quite heavy in graphics
(professional photo lab), and many of our visitors will be using dialup. A
timer wouldn't be an accurate due to the wide variance in download times.
Is there any other way of forcing the popup to wait until the page is
complete loaded before opening? Or is there a way of opening the popup
without affecting (effecting?) the loading and display of the page in the
main browser?
Rob Oviatt
Web Developer / Typesetter
Appleby Color Lab
phone: (506) 459-2320
email: applebyweb at nb.aibn.com
web site: http://www.applebycolorlab.com/
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