[thelist] NN: funny window.open self.close behavior

[rudy]

>I made a popup for http://www.ridingzone.com/rz2/site2f/general/

hi stef

when i went to your page, a popup window appeared immediately, but the
status bar on the main window said

  (81 items remaining) Downloading picture

and meanwhile the popup window sat there with broken image links and a
black background

which ain't exactly wrong, but i betcha a *lot* of people will just close
the popup before anything else happens, on the assumption it's just one of
those annoying advertisement thingies

anyhow, when i did click a link in the popup, it dutifully disappeared (i'm
using ie4 on win95), and the main window went to a login page

but when i clicked on my back button to get back to the home page, the
popup appeared again, but *behind* the main window (you will probably want
to put onLoad="self.focus()" into it or something)

my suggestion would be to have the popup appear only as the result of a
user action, like "click here to open special offer window" or something,
because you don't want it to come up every time the home page is reloaded

hope that helps

nice looking site, by the way -- real nice


rudy.ca