[thelist] Holy Status Bar Batman

[David Kaufman]

If you don't "speak" javascript and can't provide the javascript code 
that recreates the problem, my best guess would be that some obscure 
advanced security option in IE6 controls this behavior.

You might investigate the settings in
  Tools/
    Internet Options/
      Security/
        [select relevant zone here]/
          Custom Level/
            Miscellaneous/ "section":

            [ ] Allow Scripting of IE Webbrowser control
            [ ] Allow script-initiated windows without ... constraints

I told you they were obscure!

If these (or similar) settings differ between the machines that exhibit 
the problem, and those that don't, it's probably due to user tweakage 
:-)

But you said it was intermittent... which if true, and it only happens 
occasionally on the machines that it does happen on, while happening 
never on other machines.... that would lead me back to Christian's line 
of reasoning: the javascript in the popup's content (of which you said 
there was much) is throwing errors, and once a JS exception is thrown, 
other JS code you'd otherwise expect to run, often fails too in a domino 
effect.

The best way to check for this is, in Tools/Internet 
Options/Advanced/Browsing, check the box that says "Display a 
notification about every script error".  Then try to load your page 
again.  If you get any popup error notices, these are the cause of your 
intermittent behavior.

hth,

-dave


Sam Carter wrote:
> We're using a JavaScript to launch a fixed size browser window.  Key
> to the whole enchilada:  Suppressing the browser window drop-down 
> menus,
> tool bars and the status bar at the bottom.  Once this is done, we
> have a known display size and design content to fit the available 
> space.  -
> (This isn't my idea, I only work here.)
>
> The JavaScript doing the launch is fairly elementary.  I read
> JavaScript, but I don't speak it.  Even a novice can get the
> following code:
> <a href="#" onClick="window.open(
> 'Engine.htm?xmlUrl=../toc.xml+environment=development',  'name',
> 'fullscreen=no,location=no,menubar=no,resizable=no,status=no,toobar=no'
> );">Click Here to Launch</a>
>
> Some IE 6.0 browsers occasionally leave the status bar present at the
> bottom... covering the navigation links at the bottom (this is a major
> issue).  This problem is intermittent, but not too rare (2 of 6
> workstations show this problem occasionally).
>
> A fair amount of other JS executes within the launched window,
> (unfortunately, I don't have access to that script), but I believe
> once a window is launched without a status bar, enabling the status 
> bar is
> not supposed to be an option.  For example, I can see the window is
> relocated to coordinates (0,0) after the launch, so there is some
> behind-the-scene JS doing the window move.
>
> Any thoughts on why the status bar is occasionally showing up?
>
> Sam
>
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