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[Jasen James]

Hi Rob,

don't know how this is done exactly one of the js gurus around will be able
to help for sure, but check out this link and what u can do is check for the
number of images on the 1st page, then do a check to see if the last image
has already loaded , and then load the popup when that test is passed.

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/04/index3a.html

I think it would be better than using time, since different people have
different connection speeds...so some people would be back @ square 1.

[[:Jasen:]]
http://www.cbizz.net

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:[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Rob Oviatt
:Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 6:05 PM
:To: evolt
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:
:
:My boss had me design a popup that loads using an onLoad command on our
:front page of our web site.  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 ad 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
:(NS  6 seems to work fine). 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, and
:reloading 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,
:which would make a timer an iffy solution 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
:PS: If this shows up twice sorry.
:
: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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