Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Grant Wagner of comp.lang.javascript make plain:
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> Alan Little wrote:
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>> The window.close() method apparently does not work in Mac IE 5.2.
>> I've used it with no problem in the "big 3" browsers on Mac and
>> Windows, including Mac IE 5.0, but now in 5.2 it doesn't work. Has
>> anyone else encountered this? Is there a fix or workaround available?
>> Am I just missing something? Why is the sky blue? What's it all
>> about, Alfie?[/color]
>
> How was the window you are trying to close opened? You can only close
> a window that has no history and (or?) was opened by JavaScript. It's
> possible Microsoft fixed a hole that allowed you to close a window you
> didn't open.[/color]
It's a popup opened by code in the main page. It has no history (though
that's never been a problem before, either)
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> Are you _sure_ the code you have is working as written in other
> browsers?[/color]
Sure. I've tested this very application in IE, NS and Opera on Windows,
and IE and NS on OS9. In fact, I didn't even become aware of the problem
until I upgraded my Mac to OSX/IE5.2 earlier this week.
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Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/ 
