[Javascript] Remote windows in NN

[Larry Cotton]

Hi

Thanks very much for this information Peter. Setting a timeout and 
executing the code in the called function seems to fix this.

I had no idea the netscape naming system was so involved!!

I don't suppose you (or anyone else) knows whether its possible (and I 
suspect not) to open a hidden window and then make it visible at an 
appropiate time ?

Cheers
Larry

At 17:36 16/12/2002 +0000, you wrote:


>>I'm still having problems with opening popup windows in netscape. Can 
>>someone help me here.
>>
>>1) Firstly I downloaded my NN from the web. When I bring up the about 
>>dialog I get the following text :
>>"                                                        Netscape 7.0
>>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 
>>Netscape/7.0"
>>
>>I'm running on Windows 2000 and parseInt(navigator.appVersion) returns 5.
>>
>>Does this mean its netscape version 5 or 7 ?
>
>Officially Netscape 7. See my article at 
>http://www.evolt.org/article/One_browser_many_names/21/29442/index.html 
>for a partial explanation of the extremely complicated naming systems of 
>Netscape and Mozilla.
>
>>2) Using this version of netscape I'm having problems accessing the 
>>properties of a window opened using window.open(). The follwing code :
>>
>>var wi = window.open("../rhythmOrderForm.htm", "RhythmOrders", 
>>"HEIGHT=700,WIDTH=840,left=0,top=0,scrollbars=1");
>>   document.write("wi.location = " + wi.location + "<br>");
>>
>>produces the following output :
>>wi.location = about:blank
>
>That's because you ask for the location immediately after opening the 
>window. The browser hasn't yet had a chance to evaluate your statement, 
>open the window, assign the URL to location.href and download the page. It 
>needs some more time.
>
>If you execute this function onLoad in the popup you'll get more 
>satisfying results.
>
>>and any attempts to access the properties of the document result in an 
>>error message of thew form :
>>Error: wi.document.forms.RhythmOrderForm has no properties.
>
>Same problem.
>
>ppk
>
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