Slight problem with pop up windows

message from Claude Saccaro on 24 Jul 2004

On a page that has buttons that launch pop up windows I'm finding out
that in Netscape7 / MacOSX and IE5 / Win XP, it seems if a visitor was
to launch a window then not close it then return to the main page an try
to launch another window, the button will not launch a new window but
load the linked page content in the already open window (which would now
be behind the main window).

Any way to make sure that a new window is launched even if the visitor
has not closed the previous window?

URL:

http://www.diatom-ae.com/sv/audiomenu1.html

(This page is normally within a frameset that is itself within a
launched pop up window).

Murray *TMM* replied to Claude Saccaro on 24 Jul 2004

Choosing frames is now coming back to bite you.

In the pages that will be in the popup window, adjust the body tag -

<body onLoad="self.focus()"....>

Claude Saccaro replied to Murray *TMM* on 24 Jul 2004

Thanks Murray.

I tried putting the code: onLoad="self.focus()" in the body tag of the
page that is to pop up. That page is, humm, a frameset so I tried
putting it in the frameset page and in the main page that appears in the
frameset. Neither one seems to work.

Any idea?

URL of a sample pop up page:

http://www.diatom-ae.com/sv/sampl1qt.html

(I haven't yet put the self.focus code here)

Murray *TMM* wrote:

T.Pastrana - 4Level replied to Claude Saccaro on 24 Jul 2004

Try putting onLoad="top.focus()" in any of the pages that is in the popup
Frameset.

Claude Saccaro replied to T.Pastrana - 4Level on 25 Jul 2004

onLoad="top.focus()" worked well thanks.

I notice that it's causing a momentary white page when loading. Is there
anyway to prevent that so that basically the page immediately loads with
the background colour I chose (black). This happened in IE 5 and Safari
before I added the commmand. In Netscape, pages normally are black as
soon as they load.

Claude Saccaro wrote:

Murray *TMM* replied to Claude Saccaro on 24 Jul 2004

All I can tell you is that using frames is a poor design decision. You
would not have this problem on flat pages. Sorry - I don't know how to help
you out of this one.

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