[Javascript] Approved method of "bugging out"

Peter Brunone peter at brunone.com
Mon Aug 4 14:26:02 CDT 2003


Not every IE in Windows, but almost.

http://aspalliance.com/peterbrunone/impossible.asp

It's possible for the "No" cases -- although I haven't tested it yet -- that you could open a child window, set it as the parent's opener, and then close the parent.  That would (theoretically) leave the little bitty child open with no user access of any sort... just a thought.

-Peter

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com>
>
>>Thanks for the suggestion -- I'll just have to continue scouting around for 
>>some more
>>"explosive" means of forcibly (and unconditionally) closing the root 
>>window.  Meanwhile,
>>the bits I can tweak will go in child-windows ("remotes?") until I can lick 
>>the main
>>problem.
>
>If you give the root window an opener property with any value, you can 
>unconditionally close it in IE Windows. 
             


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