NYCPHP Meetup

Fri Jun 1 12:01:54 EDT 2007

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of David Krings
> 
> > Can't be done as it's a security issue 

> The only thing I think is possible is to open a new window 
> from a page that does not have a status bar (or any bars for 
> that matter). That may not work out in Firefox as those links 
> are typically opened in a new tab, which doesn't get you anything.
> 

AT first glance, I thought you guys were absolutely right and in my reply I
was specifically referring to the current window's status bar.  But it seems
the newer browsers don't even let you control the status bar in the popups.

The oldschool way to do it was adding a 'scrollbars=0' to the window.open
command like this:

<html>
	<head>
		<script language="javascript">		
			var openWindow = function() {
				var winRef = window.open('openwindow.html',
'myWindow', 'status=0, width=200, height=200, menubar=0, toolbar=0,
location=0, scrollbars=0');
			};
		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<a href="#" id="windowHandle">Window!!</a>
		<script
language="javascript">document.getElementById('windowHandle').onclick =
openWindow;</script>
	</body>
</html>

But I just tested this in IE 7.latest and FF
2.whatever.i.downloaded.yesterday and everything is gone except the status
bar.  I'm betting this is an even bigger deal now that these browsers tend
to show https status and other such security warnings in the status bar.

Unless there's another way to open a window, I'd say you can't do it in a
new window anymore.

Mark

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