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Posted by Pete on 05/21/05 13:37
>
> Long story short: don't open up new windows.
>
Thank you Els. This type of good practice guidance backed up by an
explanation is useful. I will not pursue this further on my website.
Pete
"Els" <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
news:177yo15izfo0a$.1qgh33irhintj.dlg@40tude.net...
> Pete wrote:
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>> Hi, I have searched Google & the newsgroups for how to create a popup
>> window
>> but can't find exactly what I want. What I want is to create a new popup
>> window (if this is the correct term) when someone clicks on a hyperlink
>> in
>> my webpage *****without using Javascript or VBScript etc*****
>>
>>
>> What I have now is
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>> <html><body>this is some text in my html code that I use and when someone
>> clicks on <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk>BBC</a> the browser navigates to
>> the BBC website. What I would like it to do is popup a new browser window
>> with BBC website but leave my page underneath and still
>> visible.</body></html>
>>
>> Can this be done?
>
> You can "pop up" a new window, yes (if the user hasn't changed the
> settings on his/her browser to avoid it).
> But you can't set the size of that window, it will be the size the
> user has set as default window size. That means that for people who
> surf full screen, the BBC site will also be full screen, and thus
> cover your site. Then, if the user wants to go back to your site,
> they'll press the back-button on their keyboard, or click the
> back-button of their browser, but it won't work, cause your site is in
> another window, invisible to them.
>
> Long story short: don't open up new windows.
>
> --
> Els http://locusmeus.com/
> Sonhos vem. Sonhos vγo. O resto ι imperfeito.
> - Renato Russo -
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