techniner — Tue, 24 May 2005 14:40:45 +0000

You do realize that those popups will be blocked by SP2.....

and Firefox as well...

Roo — Sun, 15 May 2005 20:15:28 +0000

Popups are fine, just do NOT use chromelss windows, ~~Service pack 2 for XP made chromeless windows not work anymore.~~

bja888 — Sun, 15 May 2005 16:08:44 +0000

Pop up blockers shoukd block pop-ups the user does not trigger. While If the user does something to trigger it. Then it will work.
target="_blank" will not allow you to take out tool bars you will have to use window.open();

chrishirst — Sun, 15 May 2005 09:20:19 +0000

While target="_blank" will open a new window it doesn't answer the original question.

Yes some types of pop-up code are distinctly unfriendly to javascript disabled user agents. However it is reasonably simple to code one that is a sizeable new window and will degrade gracefully in JS disabled UAs to a simple link.
This code in the head (in script tags) or in a linked external .js file (preferred)

// javascript popup sizeable window
function NewWindow(mypage, myname, w, h, scrolling) {
var winl = (screen.width - w) / 2;
var wint = (screen.height - h) / 2;
winprops = 'height='+ h +',width='+ w +',top='+ wint +',left='+ winl +',scrollbars='+ scrolling +',resizable='+'no'+',menubar='+'no'
win = window.open(mypage, myname, winprops)
if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4) { win.window.focus(); }
}

<a href="URI" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'names','330','350','no');return false;">Anchor Text</a>

then to make it so it doesn't simply become an orphaned page in the SERPs add this code to the pop-up page

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
<!--
var winname = window.name;
if (winname == "names")
{
document.write("<a href='' onClick='window.close()'>Click here to close the window.</a>")
}
else
{
document.write("This page is seen out of context click below for<br>the ")
document.write("<a href='site_URI'>Anchor Text</a>")
}
//-->
&lt;/script&gt;

This code is not affected by XP SP2 and will bypass most blockers because it is a user action to generate the pop-up.

Assassin — Sat, 14 May 2005 22:25:16 +0000

It's excessively simple to make that pop-up using Javascript. But if you want it to be cross-platform the best that I can do for you is tell you to put a target="_blank" argument into your tag. You might be able to find a value for the target that changes the way it all works a little. I don't really know all possible target values.

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 14 May 2005 10:44:10 +0000

chrishirst wrote: Chromeless Window

Avoid this. It's a usability sin.

Anyhow, it's not properly cross-platform; you'd have to provide some kind of redundancy to make content accessible in Javascript-restriced or -disabled browsers.

Don't use popups if a simpler alternative will work. Few are the times when popups are necessary, useful and functional.

chrishirst — Sat, 14 May 2005 09:02:06 +0000

Chromeless Window

Busy — Fri, 13 May 2005 22:44:53 +0000

try search for popup