[Javascript] Opening a Window without blocking ??

Wed Nov 24 09:25:11 CST 2004

Thanks so much for your reply, David. Its really appreciated.

First of all, I hope I made clear that these suite of web pages are only
running on a local computer - either from the CD drive, or the hard drive.

Your first point, about user-action - do you mean something like this ?

<html><head><script language="javascript">
function popup(page_name) {
var windowAtts;
windowAtts =
"width=792,height=520,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menub
ar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no";
   var courseWindow = window.open(page_name,"",windowAtts);
//Define current window
parentwin = window.self;
//Declare current window as its own child
parentwin.opener = window.self;
//Close current window
parentwin.close();
</script></head><body>
<a href ="javascript:popup('start.html')">CLICK HERE</a>
</body></html>

On your other point, HTA and Signed Scripting: I have spent the morning
looking through the Internet to see what else I could learn about this. HTA
turned out to be not so good here, as I do need the Status Bar to be on
show, and it doesn't provide one. It shouldn't be too difficult for me to
add a lower frame that mirrors it, though, if that turns out to be the best
way to go. I obviously need to look in this some more, and see what needs to
be changed on each html page. Do you know if HTA will definitely be OK in
XP-sp2 ?

Scripted Signing - most of the resources on the web seemed to be about exe
files, not html pages. One very clear page was this one
http://www.kylealons.com/Articles/codesigning.html but again, no mention of
html. Do you have a link to a resource that explains how to use scripted
signing for html pages ?

I am still working through the XP security link you provided - wow there's a
frighteningly large amount in there for web designers !!

Tim in Ireland.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "liorean" <liorean at gmail.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at latech.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Opening a Window without blocking ??

> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:37:54 -0000, Tim Makins <spindrift at oceanfree.net>
wrote:
> > I need to open a browser that contains just a status bar, but I need to
do it without triggering popup blockers or other XP active-X blockers.
>
> Well, the fast answer is: Trigger the window opening on user action.
> Most popup blockers will not catch that.
>
> As for opening with just a status bar - you don't have that control in
> modern, tabbed browsers (or rather, you can ask for it, but depending
> on the user settings you probably won't get what you ask for), or for
> that matter in ie6w under WinXPSP2.
>
> See
<uri:http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/XpSp2Compat.as
p>
> for more info about both windowing and ActiveX changes.
>
> Well, that's about as helpful as I can be, other than telling you to
> look into signed scripting or HTA for this. That has the problem of
> leaving most alternative browsers out of the loop, though. (Mozilla
> and Microsoft both have "signed scripting" (for Moz: in the form of
> author security overrides, that the user must accept), but they are
> not compatible with eachother. Still, Opera and Safari are left out
> cold if you do that.)
> -- 
> David "liorean" Andersson
> <uri:http://liorean.web-graphics.com/>