[Javascript] Can a reloaded parent window close its child?

[Hakan M.]

The Mozilla popup blocker is a feature, added because a majority of the 
people surfing the web really, really hates it when pages throw unwanted 
popup windows all over your monitor. I can't see how this feature can be 
anybodys "fault", the only fault I see is the bad UI design of using a 
popup window to display a loading message, since statistics tells us 
this is really what people do NOT want to see.

/Hakan


flavio wrote:
>    My original idea was to set a frame in top that would control all others, 
> but after reading Hakam[1] I saw that it was not going to work very well....
> 
>    But I still believe that in this case it's "Mozilla's PopUp Blocker" user's 
> fault, not the webmaster's...
> 
> [1]Quoting Hakan M. <hakan at backbase.com>:
> 
>>I wouldn't recommend using one of the dreaded popup windows for your 
>>loading sign anyway. Mozilla users will block it, and the script won't work. 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Tim Makins <spindrift at oceanfree.net>:
> 
> 
>>Here's an untested idea that seems feasible. It strikes me that you are
>>trying to maintain impossible connections - surely its easier to progress
>>in
>>a linear manner. How about something on these lines:
>>
>>1/ Parent A creates Child, then Parent A closes itself. Child can 'take
>>with
>>it' whatever variables it needs to pass on.
>>
>>2/ Child then creates what we can call 'Parent B', the new main page.
>>
>>3/ Thus Child could close itself after a time period, or on command from
>>Parent B.
>>
>>
>>Tim in Ireland.
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