javascript:clos e() for tab in Firefox

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I am writing a PHP/MySQL web-page based system on Firefox and wish to
run a separate page from an <Alink to run a separate PHP script,
then close that page. Firefox starts a new tab for this and it closes
OK but I am then left with an egg-timer at the mouse arrow when over
top or bottom toolbars areas of the parent page.

I am using <BODY onLoad='Javascr ipt:close()'to fire the tab closure.
I have tried opener.focus() with no effect.

I can't tell what is running. It doesn't happen with IE.

Any explanation/solution?

Ron Lowe

Jun 27 '08 #1

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Erwin Moller

pe**********@gm ail.com schreef:

I am writing a PHP/MySQL web-page based system on Firefox and wish to
run a separate page from an <Alink to run a separate PHP script,
then close that page. Firefox starts a new tab for this and it closes
OK but I am then left with an egg-timer at the mouse arrow when over
top or bottom toolbars areas of the parent page.

I am using <BODY onLoad='Javascr ipt:close()'to fire the tab closure.
I have tried opener.focus() with no effect.

That is no valid eventhandler.
It is pseudoprotocol for <a href="javascrip t:...">
Never use it.

To get your onload handler working simply use:
<body onLoad="someFun ction();">

and define someFunction() elsewhere.
You can also put the direct javascript commands into the onLoad handler.

>
I can't tell what is running. It doesn't happen with IE.

IE sucks in its own way.

>
Any explanation/solution?

Ron Lowe

Regards,
Erwin Moller

Jun 27 '08 #2

SAM

pe**********@gm ail.com a écrit :

I am writing a PHP/MySQL web-page based system on Firefox and wish to
run a separate page from an <Alink to run a separate PHP script,
then close that page. Firefox starts a new tab for this and it closes
OK but I am then left with an egg-timer at the mouse arrow when over
top or bottom toolbars areas of the parent page.

I am using <BODY onLoad='Javascr ipt:close()'to fire the tab closure.

<body onload="self.cl ose();">

What is the interest to load a page if it is to close it immediately ?

<body onload="setTime out(self.close, 200);">

Usually when the pop-up-tab is closed you come back to the opener tab.
There is no reason to get egg-timer nor wheel

What does the error console of Fx say ?

I have tried opener.focus() with no effect.

too late ?

Any explanation/solution?

what is supposed the "separate" php to do ?
can't it close the window (tab) itself ?
(instead of onload in body tag)
in opener try with your link :

<a href="page.php" target="other" onmouseup="this .blur();">
<a href="page.php"
onclick="window .open(this.href );this.blur();r eturn false;">
and don't forget ............... ............... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

--
sm

Jun 27 '08 #3

Joost Diepenmaat

Erwin Moller <Si************ *************** *************** @spamyourself.c omwrites:

pe**********@gm ail.com schreef:
>I am writing a PHP/MySQL web-page based system on Firefox and wish to
run a separate page from an <Alink to run a separate PHP script,
then close that page. Firefox starts a new tab for this and it closes
OK but I am then left with an egg-timer at the mouse arrow when over
top or bottom toolbars areas of the parent page.

I am using <BODY onLoad='Javascr ipt:close()'to fire the tab closure.
I have tried opener.focus() with no effect.

That is no valid eventhandler.

yes it is. in this case, javascript: is interpreted as a label. it's
just useless.
--
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

Jun 27 '08 #4

Erwin Moller

Joost Diepenmaat schreef:

Erwin Moller <Si************ *************** *************** @spamyourself.c omwrites:

>pe**********@gm ail.com schreef:
>>I am writing a PHP/MySQL web-page based system on Firefox and wish to
run a separate page from an <Alink to run a separate PHP script,
then close that page. Firefox starts a new tab for this and it closes
OK but I am then left with an egg-timer at the mouse arrow when over
top or bottom toolbars areas of the parent page.

I am using <BODY onLoad='Javascr ipt:close()'to fire the tab closure.
I have tried opener.focus() with no effect.
That is no valid eventhandler.

yes it is. in this case, javascript: is interpreted as a label. it's
just useless.

Hi,

OK, thanks for correcting that. I didn't know that.

Is there ANY use ever for javascript: ??
(I don't want to advise people to avoid it if it has actual use
somewhere/somehow.)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

Jun 27 '08 #5

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Joost Diepenmaat wrote:

Erwin Moller <Si************ *************** *************** @spamyourself.c omwrites:
>pe**********@gm ail.com schreef:
>>I am writing a PHP/MySQL web-page based system on Firefox and wish to
run a separate page from an <Alink to run a separate PHP script,
then close that page. Firefox starts a new tab for this and it closes
OK but I am then left with an egg-timer at the mouse arrow when over
top or bottom toolbars areas of the parent page.

I am using <BODY onLoad='Javascr ipt:close()'to fire the tab closure.
I have tried opener.focus() with no effect.
That is no valid eventhandler.

yes it is. in this case, javascript: is interpreted as a label. it's
just useless.

To be precise, it is not an event handler, valid or otherwise. It is the
value of an intrinsic *event handler attribute*. The value, which type is
CDATA, is supposed to be a string value representing code written in an
ECMAScript implementation here (because such a language appears to be the
default scripting language in past and current HTML UAs).

Whether `javascript:' constitutes syntactically valid ECMAScript-compliant
code depends on the implementation used: ECMAScript before Edition 3 did not
specify the LabelStatement production. So strictly speaking, it is e.g. not
valid (by any standards you want to apply) in Netscape before version 4.0,
and Microsoft Internet Explorer before version 4.0, because the ECMAScript
implementations they supported did not support that particular feature yet.

http://PointedEars.de/scripts/es-matrix/#javascript
PointedEars
--
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

Jun 27 '08 #6

Evertjan.

Erwin Moller wrote on 14 mei 2008 in comp.lang.javas cript:

Is there ANY use ever for javascript: ??
(I don't want to advise people to avoid it if it has actual use
somewhere/somehow.)

Yes.

1 In favelets/bookmarklets.

2 In an [IE only] vbscript using page, to call sporadic js:

=============== =========
<script type='text/vbscript'>
document.write "Hello<br>"
i = 7
</script>

<div onclick = 'javascript:ale rt(++i);'>
Click me!
</div>
=============== =========

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Jun 27 '08 #7

Joost Diepenmaat

Erwin Moller <Si************ *************** *************** @spamyourself.c omwrites:

Is there ANY use ever for javascript: ??
(I don't want to advise people to avoid it if it has actual use
somewhere/somehow.)

IIRC the purpose of the javascript: URLs (and URLs only) is to call a
JS function that returns the content of a page/image/whatever. IOW you
could use it to generate an image or page on the fly. Which won't work
for event handlers, since event attribute values aren't URLs.

For instance: <a href="javascrip t:'bla'">click</a>

--
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

Jun 27 '08 #8

Joost Diepenmaat

Joost Diepenmaat <jo***@zeekat.n lwrites:

Erwin Moller <Si************ *************** *************** @spamyourself.c omwrites:

>Is there ANY use ever for javascript: ??
(I don't want to advise people to avoid it if it has actual use
somewhere/somehow.)

IIRC the purpose of the javascript: URLs (and URLs only) is to call a
JS function

^^^^^^^^ or direct code. it seems to work more or less like eval()
in that regard...

that returns the content of a page/image/whatever. IOW you
could use it to generate an image or page on the fly. Which won't work
for event handlers, since event attribute values aren't URLs.

For instance: <a href="javascrip t:'bla'">click</a>

--
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

Jun 27 '08 #9

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Joost Diepenmaat wrote:

Joost Diepenmaat <jo***@zeekat.n lwrites:
>Erwin Moller <Si************ *************** *************** @spamyourself.c omwrites:
>>Is there ANY use ever for javascript: ??
(I don't want to advise people to avoid it if it has actual use
somewhere/somehow.)
IIRC the purpose of the javascript: URLs (and URLs only) is to call a
JS function
^^^^^^^^ or direct code. it seems to work more or less like eval()
in that regard...

It is described how it is supposed to work, and that appears to match the
implementations ' behavior. I have posted the description in another thread
*today*, so there really is no need to post your wild assumptions.
PointedEars
--
realism: HTML 4.01 Strict
evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
madness: XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
-- Bjoern Hoehrmann

Jun 27 '08 #10

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