[Javascript] Thanks & follow-up, was: Handling child windowvisibility...

[Tim Makins]

Instead of loading your code to a popup window (which people hate/disable
anyway), why not load it to an iframe on your existing page. Then it will
always be visible...

Tim in Ireland.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shawn Milo" <ShawnMilo at runbox.com>
> To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Thanks & follow-up, was: Handling child
> windowvisibility...
>
> Follow-up question:  Although this works, it does not
> bring up the window until the page has loaded (obviously),
> and since the page is running some ASP code and reading
> from a database, it could take a few seconds.  In that time,
> the person could click the button again, thus re-starting
> the entire process.
>
> So is there a way to, from JavaScript included on the main
> page, bring that window to the fore? If not, I suppose that
> I could always disable the button temporarily, and replace
> the button value with 'Please Wait'.  Ideas?