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Re: Secondary window vs. popup? (take II)

Subject: Re: Secondary window vs. popup? (take II)
From: Zola <zola -at- zolaweb -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:24:59 -0400


At 11:45 AM 8/17/2004, Geoff Hart wrote:

You sure about that? I tested the "target=blank", without JavaScript, in my browsers (Safari on Mac OS-X and IE 5.2 ditto) with the popup blocker enabled, and it worked just fine. In any event, any popup blocker that stops you from opening a link in a new window _when that's what you want to do_ isn't worth the time to download it imho.

I will second this, Geoff. This issue came up when the programmers of the online game I worked on wanted to use a java popup window for help links.

We had a number of people with different browsers and blockers try it out (nice thing about an online game is you always have folks around willing to test these things), and it always works. The reason for this is because it is *not* an automatic process, you have clicked a link which tells your program that you *want* to see the item.

target="_blank" is also unaffected because that is an html command that simply says "open this link in a new browser" and isn't a popup at all.

Zola


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Follow-Ups:

References:
HTML question: sizing and positioning secondary/child windows ? Summary: From: Geoff Hart
Re: HTML question: sizing and positioning secondary/child windows ? Summary: From: Bonnie Granat
Secondary window vs. popup (was: HTML question): From: Geoff Hart
Re: Secondary window vs. popup: From: Dick Margulis
Secondary window vs. popup? (take II): From: Geoff Hart

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