Notification popup

[Charles]

Do you remember when one of your buddies get connected to MSN Messenger, a
little alert pops up in the lower-right hand corner of your screen saying
"Bob signed up", then, after a second, it goes down and disappears.

Well, I'd like to do it too, but with my browser. At least I'd like with
IE if possible. This would be for a chat application for the web. How
could I do it?

Thanks,

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[Charles]

Sorry, I forgot to say, I want the popup to appear even if the browser
window is minimized.
Thanks again,

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[Hywel Jenkins]

In article <op.s5hnpattix6 gqv@charles>, [e-mail] says...

Do you remember when one of your buddies get connected to MSN Messenger, a
little alert pops up in the lower-right hand corner of your screen saying
"Bob signed up", then, after a second, it goes down and disappears.

Well, I'd like to do it too, but with my browser. At least I'd like with
IE if possible. This would be for a chat application for the web. How
could I do it?

AJAX.

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Hywel
http://kibo.org.uk/

[Jonas Raoni]

Charles wrote:

Do you remember when one of your buddies get connected to MSN Messenger,
a little alert pops up in the lower-right hand corner of your screen
saying "Bob signed up", then, after a second, it goes down and disappears.

Well, I'd like to do it too, but with my browser. At least I'd like
with IE if possible. This would be for a chat application for the web.
How could I do it?

Open the popup on the place that you wants it to appear and, using a
timer (setTimeout) changes the position of the window (moveTo(x,y) or
moveBy(x,y)) until it disappears (top > screen.height) =b

But remember that probably all the browsers released these days have
popup a blocker enabled by default, so your "alert system" won't work if
you don't disable it everywhere :)

So my suggestion is to warn the user with the so-called "DHTML", maybe
you can call "focus()" for the window and play a sound, whenever a new
msg is received, user connects, etc. I always missed a "focus" in these
support chats when the person takes too much time to answer I find other
things to do =]
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[Charles]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:14:28 -0300, Jonas Raoni <jo********@gma il.com>
wrote:

Open the popup on the place that you wants it to appear and, using a
timer (setTimeout) changes the position of the window (moveTo(x,y) or
moveBy(x,y)) until it disappears (top > screen.height) =b

Very good idea! Actually the pop up will probably not be blocked because
it will be opened manually when the person clicks a button/link.

The best would be to have the title bar disappear so that we only see the
content of the popup, but I guess this is not possible...
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[Hywel Jenkins]

In article <op.s5hw7pfxix6 gqv@charles>, [e-mail] says...

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:14:28 -0300, Jonas Raoni <jo********@gma il.com>
wrote:

Open the popup on the place that you wants it to appear and, using a
timer (setTimeout) changes the position of the window (moveTo(x,y) or
moveBy(x,y)) until it disappears (top > screen.height) =b

Very good idea!

It isn't. It might still interfere with the Task Bar, and the Mac/*nix
equivalents, and for many Mozilla users it would open in another tab.

You'd be far better off using some sort of XMLHTTPRequest that remains
in-page and updates a specific part of the page the user is looking at.
After all, once the user has navigated away from the page it's unlikely
that they're interested any more.

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Hywel
http://kibo.org.uk/

[Charles]

Em Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:01:36 -0300, Hywel Jenkins
<hy***********@ gmail.com> escreveu:

It isn't. It might still interfere with the Task Bar, and the Mac/*nix
equivalents, and for many Mozilla users it would open in another tab.
I know but my customers only use IE 5.5 or IE 6, and there seems to be no
solution for Opera and Mozilla, so at least for now, I'll only support IE.
After all, once the user has navigated away from the page it's unlikely
that they're interested any more.

My customers can't wait all day long in front of the chat app waiting for
new customers, I need something to call their attention while they're
doing something else...