javascript for adding search provider in IE7

[zhengyan11]

Hey,

I encounter a problem when I am trying to add a pop up window on
my page, which will trigger a function
window.external.addSearchProvider(URL). This function will open a
dialog box window.


This pop up window only comes up when a user's browser is IE7 AND
he is a first-time visitor. My problem is how I can recognize a person
as a first-time visitor. I suppose that I should use a cookie. But I
am confused how I could get those useful info, which I will use to
define a first time visitor: in IE7 enviroment, I need to tell if this
user ever closes the dialog box window and if this user ever
manipulates this dialog box window. I need those info to set up a
cookie so that I could tell if a user is a come-back visitor and then
I could decide if I should trigger this pop up window again.

This is very urgent and I am a newbie to javascript. Please help!
thank you very much!

 

[VK]

Hey,

"Hi" to you too ;-)

I encounter a problem when I am trying to add a pop up window on
my page, which will trigger a function
window.external.addSearchProvider(URL).

microsoft.public.scripting.jscript may be more helpful place to ask
for IE-specific programming.

From the common cookie usage point of view you are over-complicating

the matter.

1. User comes to your site.
2. You check if your search provider is already added - because by
some accasion user might already have your search engine because it is
so cool and famous
3. If not then you check if it was already proposed to this visitor to
add your search provider.
4. If both 2 and 3 are false then mark "proposition was made" by using
cookie and then make the proposition itself.

if ( (!window.external.IsSearchProviderInstalled(YourURL) &&
(/* YourGetCookieSub reports false */) ) {

/* YourSetCookieSub call */;

window.external.addSearchProvider(YourURL);

}

 

[zhengyan11]

thanks a lot, VK

My js function still has trouble running. I wrote it as below:

if(isTargetPerson)
{
searchWindow =
window.open('mypic.gif','searchWindow','toolbar=no,resizable=no,width=180,height=85')
searchWindow.attachEvent('onClose', markVisit)
searchWindow.attachEvent('onClick', addSearchProvider)
searchWindow.focus()
}

I could get a popo up window when I visit the site, but the problem
is that when I click the pop up window, it could trigger nothing. I
wonder if there is something wrong with the attachEvent method. I am
lookking foward to reading your hints. thank you again.