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?

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[Richard Cornford]

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

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/stor...9118629,00.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]

Richard Cornford <Ri*****@litotes.demon.co.uk> spoke thus:

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.

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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Christopher Benson-Manica <at***@nospam.cyberspace.org> writes:

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 :)

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[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lr*@hotpop.com> spoke thus:

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 :)

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