[thelist] Bringing windows to the foreground with javascript

Aylard James J writes:
 > 	One caution on the use of window.focus(): It will throw an error in
 > Nav2 and IE3. Jeff Howden and I bandied this about a few days ago, and the
 > two most-reliable solutions are to either test support for the focus method:

another fun IE behaviour I found the other day was that you can't give a window focus if you've opened a page from a different domain in it. (sorry, flaky memory, can't remember if this was IE4 or 5). instead you get one of those fun 'can't do that (but I'm not telling you what that is)' dialogs.

- dwayne