Re: weird!! pop-up problem

> pop-up problem

The pop-up problem has been discussed here many times (search the posts
for "pop-up")

The problem is that any modern browser (including IE 6 starting with XP
SP2) has build in anti-popup activated by default.

Also nearly any anti-virus program has its own anti-popup also. In the
latter case IE cannot determine the popup state (its absence) and
crashes.

If your solution is not for intranet-only (so you cannot set each
station in the needed way) then you have to start to migrate
immediately on popup'less solution (iframe / div / browser state
snapshot). Otherwise approx. by the first middle of the next year your
site will be not functional for 90% of your visitors.

For the migration period you may use try-catch block to notify your
visitors:

try {
window.open(...);
}
catch (e) {
alert("Blocked by popup blocker");
}

If will fail on some *really old* browsers w/o try-catch support; but
it will fail on them anyway on the first attempt to address to that
imaginary window (which exists for the script, but it doesn't in the
reality). So you have nothing to loose but you have something to win.

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