[thelist] IE 6 and Auto Window Focus....

[Anthony Baratta]

Howdy...

I've seen this problem numerous times and now it's become a real pain the 
arse. IE 6 (maybe some SP version of 5.5 also) changes window focus when I 
don't want it to. Here's the scenario:

Main Window with snazy roll-overs and useful content. One of the links in 
the main window pops a new browser which is sized to a specific height and 
width. This popup window lays over part of the main window. When I move the 
mouse to click or manage data in the popup and it crosses an area of the 
main window with a rollover, IE removes focus of the popup window and 
activates the rollover.

I've also seen IE 6 force a newly popped window to the back if the main 
window is refreshed - saying "you get back there I need to show my new 
content." Other times I've seen an IE window pop to the front while 
rendering after I've pushed it to the back in order to read the page I'm on.

e.g. reading a page, right mouse click a link to open in a new window (gwad 
I wish IE has tabs like Opera or Mozilla!) and I minimize the new window to 
keep it out of the way while I continue reading. The of it's own volition, 
the back grounded windows comes forward still rendering. I minimize it and 
it returns again like Nosferatu.

Has anyone been able to stop this bad behaviour??? I feel like I'm back on 
XWindows and the olde mouse determines active window behaviour.
-- 
Anthony Baratta
President
Keyboard Jockeys

"Conformity is the refuge of the unimaginative."