Javascript with expiring cookie

[Mo]

I am looking for a JavaScript that will allow me to open a pop-up
window "onUnload". The pop-up window should set a cookie on the users
computer that expires in 'n' number of days.

[Randy Webb]

Mo wrote:

I am looking for a JavaScript that will allow me to open a pop-up
window "onUnload". The pop-up window should set a cookie on the users
computer that expires in 'n' number of days.

So, after I leave your site, you want to *attempt* to annoy me by
opening yet another ad window?

And *if* I allow the cookie, do I get cyber-milk with it?

Stop trying to annoy people after they have left your site. They are
gone, let them go in peace.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/

[Cardman]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:35:12 +0000, Randy Webb
<hi************@aol.com> wrote:

Mo wrote:

I am looking for a JavaScript that will allow me to open a pop-up
window "onUnload". The pop-up window should set a cookie on the users
computer that expires in 'n' number of days.

So, after I leave your site, you want to *attempt* to annoy me by
opening yet another ad window?

And *if* I allow the cookie, do I get cyber-milk with it?

Stop trying to annoy people after they have left your site. They are
gone, let them go in peace.

Well, there are valid uses for this function don't forget, even if
better options could exist.

Just what do you have against cookies by the way? When being able to
recognize what one of your customers it is when they visit your site
has always seemed like a good idea to me, when you can welcome them
with like "Hello Randy, Welcome Back!".

Cardman
http://www.cardman.com
http://www.cardman.co.uk

[Tim Williams]

"Cardman" <do****@spam-me.com> wrote in message
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:35:12 +0000, Randy Webb
<hi************@aol.com> wrote:
<trim>
Just what do you have against cookies by the way? When being able to
recognize what one of your customers it is when they visit your site
has always seemed like a good idea to me, when you can welcome them
with like "Hello Randy, Welcome Back!".

Cardman
http://www.cardman.com
http://www.cardman.co.uk

I've always thought that was more creepy than anything else. Anyway,
what has opening a new window got to do with setting a cookie? This
can be done anytime from the main window.

Tim.

[Michael Winter]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:23:22 +0000, Cardman <do****@spam-me.com> wrote:

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:35:12 +0000, Randy Webb
<hi************@aol.com> wrote:

Mo wrote:

I am looking for a JavaScript that will allow me to open a pop-up
window "onUnload". The pop-up window should set a cookie on the users
computer that expires in 'n' number of days.

So, after I leave your site, you want to *attempt* to annoy me by
opening yet another ad window?

And *if* I allow the cookie, do I get cyber-milk with it?

Stop trying to annoy people after they have left your site. They are
gone, let them go in peace.

Well, there are valid uses for this function don't forget, even if
better options could exist.

[snip]

The onunload intrinsic event is unreliable and should be avoided. Browsers
consider different things "unload events". For example, I think IE fires
onunload when a page changes, is refreshed, and when the window is closed.
Opera only fires it when the page is changed. I haven't got around to
installing Netscape and Mozilla, so I can't compare them.

Mike

--
Michael Winter
M.******@blueyonder.co.invalid (replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply)

[Cardman]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:26:25 GMT, "Tim Williams"
<sa************@THISpacbell.net> wrote:

"Cardman" <do****@spam-me.com> wrote in message
news:om********************************@4ax.com.. .

Just what do you have against cookies by the way? When being able to
recognize what one of your customers it is when they visit your site
has always seemed like a good idea to me, when you can welcome them
with like "Hello Randy, Welcome Back!".
I've always thought that was more creepy than anything else.

It can be I guess if you do not know how it works and thought that you
were being spied upon. Like "quick, exit this web page, before it
takes over the web cam and they get to see us naked!". ;-]
Anyway, what has opening a new window got to do with setting a
cookie? This can be done anytime from the main window.

Beats me, but I cannot await the answer.

Cardman
http://www.cardman.com
http://www.cardman.co.uk