[thelist] Popup window and Safari

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Wed Jan 19 14:22:17 CST 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Hardy
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:43 AM
> 
> I can see two possible solutions
> 
> One is to add a hack to make the page delay execution of the write.

James,

Yuck.

> The second (and better solution) would be to remove the # and 
> just pass 
> an empty string - according to my O'Reilly JavaScript: The Definitive 
> Guide, the url is "An optional string .. if this argument is 
> omitted, or 
> if the empty string is specified, the new window does not display a 
> document". I haven't tested it however so could be cloud cuckoo land, 
> but it SHOULD work, as it will not attempt to load anything.

Worked like a charm.  Thanks a million.

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
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