[Javascript] Silent window.close... or a better idea

[Peter Brunone]

Dan,

    That is EXACTLY what I needed... although I just said window.opener=top
and then closed it.  Thanks a million!  I wonder when MS will patch *that*
little useful feature...

Cheers,

Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Costea" <costea.dan at ssi-schaefer.ro>

> I had exactly the same problem few months ago :o)
> Because of the security reasons, you cannot close a window without
> confirmation, if you didn't open that window with your js. But if you
really
> have no choice, you must lie the IE, by telling it that you opened that
> window you want to close! Here is the code:
>
> function cheatCloseWin ()
> {
>  win = top;
>
>  // lying:
>  win.opener = top;
>
>  win.close ();
> }
>
> Dan.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Brunone" <peter at brunone.com>
> >
> > I have an intranet application (IE 5.5 only) that needs to be in a
> > fixed-size window with no menu, status, etc.  I can use a simple
> > window.open, but unfortunately the user doesn't want an extra window
> around.
> > I thought that if a page is the first one in the history, you could
> > window.close() without a confirmation, but that doesn't seem to be the
> case.
> > Can someone suggest a way to either silently close the calling window
> > (which will be a new browser instance just for this app anyway) OR alter
> the
> > existing window in the same way?  Since this is restricted to high-level
> MS
> > browsers, there has to be a usable option.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Peter