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Posted by Ben C on 08/03/07 22:19
On 2007-08-03, lester psigal <lesterpsigal@yahoo.de> wrote:
> lester psigal wrote:
>> hi,
>> more and more web sites are coming up with new features like those
>> frameless ( with frameless i mean those windows totally without browser
>> frame, not those generated by javascript/css ), transparent popup
>> windows with (dynamic) web content, e.g. ask.com.
>> sometimes they are generated by (top-text) services like intellitext
>> (vibrant technologies) or kontera.
>> how do those popups technology work (code-technically)?
>> does it belong to web 2.0 and where can i find www resources about such
>> technology?
>> any hints appreciated...
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> lester
>>
>>
> hi,
> thanks to all for answering my question, especially to michael fesser
> and ben c, if i get you right, those 'popping up', 'frameless' windows
> are not really window objects of their own in the sense of javascript,
> they are more a kind of 'dynamic css' (that's what i've assumed) and are
> triggered via javascript and dom in the already loaded window object and
> just 'mimicking' the behaviour of a real popup window.
Yes I think that's how they're done.
> the reason i've asked was that i did not find a coding example or even
> mentioning of the technology in my web programming literature and when
> looking to the source code of e.g. ask.com it wasn't obvious to me how
> it exactly works.
I tried an example, you can look at the source, it should be quite
simple. Don't know if it works in IE but Firefox should be OK.
http://www.tidraso.co.uk/misc/popup.html
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