window.opener question

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Let's say that some script on a page opens a new window with a certain
URL. The page at that URL immediately forwards the popped up browser
window to a different URL. Can the popped up window still refer to
the original window using window.opener?

 

[Richard Cornford]

Let's say that some script on a page opens a new window

With a reported 1400% increase in the use of pop-up blockers over the
last year:-

<URL: http://www.silicon.com/hardware/storage/0,39024649,39118629,00.htm(and they don't cite the source so a large pinch of salt is called for)

- that would be an optimistic proposition, but OK, lets say it does.

with a certain URL. The page at that URL immediately forwards the
popped up browser window to a different URL.

Better if the server redirects/forwards when it receives the request for
the first URL.

Can the popped up window still refer to
the original window using window.opener?

Cross-domain security restrictions may apply, but otherwise that should
be OK.

Richard.

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

With a reported 1400% increase in the use of pop-up blockers over the
last year:-

Well, our users can't use our site if they disallow popups - their
choice

Better if the server redirects/forwards when it receives the request for
the first URL.

Probably, but I want to use an existing CGI, and the name of the cgi
that's originally being popped up is fixed.

Cross-domain security restrictions may apply, but otherwise that should
be OK.

Great - thanks.

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Well, our users can't use our site if they disallow popups - their
choice

Just to make a point: No, it's your choice to use popups and to make
a site that requires it. It can be avoided if you so desired.

Users really don't need a reason not to use a site

/L

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Just to make a point: No, it's your choice to use popups and to make
a site that requires it. It can be avoided if you so desired.

It could - but I don't design the site, I just help maintain it