Vincent Puglia — Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:27:52 +0000

Hi,

where childWin is the name of the spawned window. You might also try closing the window from within itself with a setTimeout. If no key action, no mouse, no focus, close()

Vinny

what I want to do

davidg — Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:28:38 +0000

Thanks for your responses, in answer to Vinny, the reason for me needing this is that, on my site they open up a popup window which is basically just another browser, however when they close the parent window I want this "popup" window to disappear also, cleaning up so to speak.

TheGraphicsExperience — Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:23:53 +0000

Want to see a known offender?

http://www.freefever.com

Good site, the owner just blatantly spams you, though.

Vincent Puglia — Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:51:47 +0000

Hi david,

Other than through cgi, no. And even then, it might be too late. The best you can do is test if they are leaving through a link from your page.
Why would you want to anyway? Hit them with a banner? Bad idea, many people won't return if they're forced to read ads. Hit them with an ezine plug? Do it with onLoad (it's almost acceptable nowadays).
btw: I hope 'unLoad' was a typo; should have been 'onUnload'
Vinny