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Hello again,
It seems that some functionality I used years ago no longer works on some
modern
browsers. Before I ditch the whole idea, I'd like to ask you whether you
think it's
possible to find a cross-browser work-around.
The idea is to gain control over a popup window that was opened by another
page/window/tab/browser instance by calling it by its name:
MyPopup=window.open("","MyPopupName");
MyPopup.opener=self;
It works in every case in IE7, but e.g. in FF3.7 it only works from a new
page
loaded into the same tab. The open() call fails if the popup was opened from
another tab (that is still open) in the same browser instance.
I was thinking of ditching the whole idea of one persistent popup window for
a
whole site, but I thought I'd ask here first whether there is a way to do
it.
Marc.
It seems that some functionality I used years ago no longer works on some
modern
browsers. Before I ditch the whole idea, I'd like to ask you whether you
think it's
possible to find a cross-browser work-around.
The idea is to gain control over a popup window that was opened by another
page/window/tab/browser instance by calling it by its name:
MyPopup=window.open("","MyPopupName");
MyPopup.opener=self;
It works in every case in IE7, but e.g. in FF3.7 it only works from a new
page
loaded into the same tab. The open() call fails if the popup was opened from
another tab (that is still open) in the same browser instance.
I was thinking of ditching the whole idea of one persistent popup window for
a
whole site, but I thought I'd ask here first whether there is a way to do
it.
Marc.