[Javascript] xp sp2 ie help

[Roger Roelofs]

Paul,

On Oct 4, 2004, at 10:14 AM, Paul McGuire wrote:

> I have found that XP service pack 2 IE displays a little icon down the 
> bottom saying its blocked some content. The user must click this and 
> then agree that they are happy for this content to be allowed from 
> this site from now on and it continues to work then.
>
> Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Roelofs" 
> <rer at datacompusa.com>
> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 2:19 PM
> Subject: [Javascript] xp sp2 ie help
>
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a site where users need to upload photos.  Many of the users 
>> are not comfortable with their computers.  In order to make their 
>> lives easier, I implemented a 'view' button so they could view their 
>> photos before uploading them.
>>
>> This feature works by extracting the path to the image file from the 
>> file upload control and using it to create a file:// url which is 
>> passed to an open window javascript call.  Users had to make us a 
>> 'trusted site' in ie6, but it was a useful enough feature that many 
>> of our users did so.
>>
>> After installing service pack 2, this feature no longer works (except 
>> in AOL).
>>
>> Is there a workaround (besides recommending AOL ;-) ) ?
>>
>> Thanks!

Are you talking about the popup blocker?  IE is actually throwing an 
'access denied' javascript error.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

Roger
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