thanks

akohl — Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:22:37 +0000

Basically, I thought it would be cool to start the site in a small window. But I guess I see that there is really no point to that. so I'm going to leave it.

Thanks for your advice and explanations.

The Webmistress — Tue, 07 Aug 2001 07:42:20 +0000

What do you want to have in this popup? Most people will cloe it probably before the content has opened as they think it's an annoying ad!

You can't.

Suzanne — Tue, 07 Aug 2001 07:34:24 +0000

That would be messing with user settings in their browser. It's a permissions thing, and you will not be able to do it. Resizing the window is annoying enough.

You can only control those chrome bits in a window that your page opens and controls, not the main browser.

Best way to do this, if you must, is to have a generic page with your url and contact information on it and a manual link to the pop-up incase it doesn't arrive or people kill it before it loads thinking it's an ad. Have the real page pop-up in its own window that you can control.

There are other options, notably using DHTML to control the size and float of the page and ignoring the rest of the window, and I recall a chromeless option that worked only in IE, I think, but this all involved a new window or opening the new "windows" inside the main browser with all the chrome.

hth,

Suzanne