[thelist] Testing for Popup Blockers

[Elankath, Tarun (Cognizant)]

The window.open() function returns a reference to the new window. So, if a popup buster blocks it, I am haphazarding a guess that it returns null.

So you could maybe check for null (using javascript ofcourse) and then either alert() the user or use window.location.href to the error page.

Hope that helps,
Tarun

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Johnson [mailto:amy at rocky-hills.com]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:52 AM
To: TheList
Subject: [thelist] Testing for Popup Blockers


I have taken over a site that uses loads of JavaScript popup windows
for its shopping cart (I know - I've told the client this is bad
news).  My client does not want to change this right now.  Meanwhile I
now know that this is a problem with the Popup Blockers.  I thought
maybe I could at least test for the popup blocker and let the user
know that he'll have to disable it to use the shopping cart.  I hate
doing things half-*ss but I'm working with my hands tied behind my
back right now.

So can anyone lead me to some Perl code that would test for a Popup
Blocker?

Thanks.
Sigh.
Amy


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