[Javascript] pop-up window when a user leaves

[Peter Brunone]

    Isn't that usually what porn sites do? (I've only heard...)

    This pop-up doesn't always work (i.e. I can select a site from my address bar without setting off the onUnload), but even if it did, would the users really want that?

    Also, ASP wouldn't be much use for the off-site request, since your page would be loaded and finished by the time the new "outside" page was selected.  You could probably store your domain/IP in client-side variables and check the destination in your onUnload -- you'd probably need to experiment to see what property (e.g. window.history(1), window.location.href, etc) holds the upcoming URL -- but this will still be sketchy in terms of its effectiveness.

Just some random musings...


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Don Makoviney 
  To: 'javascript at LaTech.edu' 
  Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 8:12 AM
  Subject: [Javascript] pop-up window when a user leaves


  I want to have a pop-up window come up when a user leaves my website.

  I have found several scripts that work when a user leaves a "page", but I

  only want the pop-up to come up when they leave the "site".

  Know what I mean?

  Can anyone point me to a script for that?

  An example:

  Go over to fortune.com. . . .view an

  article. . . .then try and go to another site, like Yahoo or something. At

  that point the site determines that you are leaving and instantiates a

  pop-up window.

  Any ideas? I am thinking that using ASP I can check the new domain or IP out

  and see if it matches my IP. If not, then do an onunload popup.

  Any other ideas would be much appreciated.



  Thanks,

  DM

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