Posted by Doug on 11/05/05 21:56

I guarantee it has no evil intent. All I want it for is to throw up a
message in a pop-up (another page) that tells the user something like "fill
in the cotton picken edit box." just like in the desktop world of
programming.

I know advertising pop-ups are evil and I hate them also.

"brucie" <shit@usenetshit.info> wrote in message
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> In post <news:11mppin86t11jce@corp.supernews.com>,
> Doug said:
>
> > How can the width and height of a web page be controlled.
>
> modern browsers can prevent you from fiddling with window width/height
(and
> a lot of other giggly stuff)
>
> > It would be nice if the web page size (for a link)
>
> if its just a link to another site you're better off just using a normal
> link, if people want to open that link in a new window they can do it
> themselves.
>
> > could be revised so it can appear like a message dialog instead of the
> > full size page.
>
> what you want is a <evil>popup</evil> with the width and height specified
> but many people use various means to block them.
>
> without knowing what you really want one for i can only recommend against
> it because its evil and put you on my "people not to be saved" list when
> armageddon arrives.
>
>
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