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Wed Jul 18 18:17:19 CDT 2001

Rob,

Do you have this online? "onLoad" (within a <body> tag), by definition, will
load whatever is next to it (within the quotation marks) _after_ the pages
is loaded. This is my understanding, and what I've noticed thru experience
with Netscape and MIE. Also, check out netscape's documentation:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsref/evnt13.htm#101
0680
from
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsref/index.htm

My feeling is that your event handler is not the issue here. Something
online might help me (us) in discovering what the problem is.

 - Ryan Siegel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Oviatt" <applebyweb at nb.aibn.com>
To: "evolt" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:04 PM
Subject: [thelist] (no subject)

> 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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