Posted by Richard Heyes on 11/29/05 12:16

Jochem Maas wrote:

> it might be possible to use some browser plugin to hit the server
> if it notices that it's window is being closed... although I have a
> sneaking
> suspicion that Flash, for instance, has the same problem as javascript with
> not being able to differentiate between the page unloading and the
> window closing.
>
> **as far as I know there is NO WAY to tell when the user closes the
> window, unless
> you give them a specific way of telling you (e.g. via a 'log off and
> close the window'
> link) and they are nice enough to only use the mechanism you provide
> (fat chance :-).

You could use the onunload event to make an AJAX style call...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events/onunload.asp

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Richard Heyes
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