[lucidcreations]

Peeps,

You might recal me saying before, our company produces Flash based finance applications for clients such as Hitachi, MBNA, Blackhorse and hundreds of motor dealerships. Now these apps need to be run full screen in a browser to maximise screen space and make them more app like for data entry etc. Now to maximise the window and remove toolbars and all other config bits we obviously have to use a 'window.open'. Unless you know differently??

Recently our support department have started to receive more calls from people not being able to use the apps cos they have google popup blocker and a like installed. Now this is just a matter of us diabling it for our sites, but I have just noticed that direct line insurance (www.directline.co.uk) use a popup for their motor insurnace application. The thing thats puzzling me is how does this still popup eventhough I have a google popup blocker installed? Is there some kind of affiliate scheme with Google and reputable companies to allow popups of some code trickery??

Cheers in advance.

[lucidcreations]

thats was badly typed as ever

[Brown]

doesn't it have to be a user triggered action - otherwise its not what the user wants and so google thinks its spam. why not just open a new window using target?

[stickmus]

Why not just let people maximise themselves?

"to get the best experience hit F11"

Nothing I hate more than a website hijacking my browser...

[lucidcreations]

Can u still chrome the window? E.g. remove all the bars?

I have directline blocked in google bar and it still opens and also in mozilla when its blocked, its doing our heads in.......

From what i can see their pages only uses a window.open

[lucidcreations]

its not a website, its an app! its the only thing that sits on a users screen all day.

[Brown]

but is it a user triggered window.open or just happens when you load the page?

[lucidcreations]

sorry, yeah onclick = function then window.open

[stickmus]

So if it's an application, give them some instructions with it

[/useless comment]

The direct line one uses href="javascript: function()" rather than an onclick...

[lucidcreations]

actually you might have something there, when i put the window.open in the href it works..hmm

[stickmus]

Makes the source a lot easier to understand too.

[lucidcreations]

mate the source is produced by C# anyway its way over my head, I just trying to help the code monkeys out

Just chatting to a dev bod and after the initial onclick = window.open there is another window.open which is sort of onload

[stickmus]

I seem to be spending an awfull lot of time lately trying to consolidate various bits of (other ppls) javascript that really don't need to be in six different places

[lucidcreations]

uh?

[stickmus]

Never mind, I know what I mean