I must admit that I have softened my absolute aversion to script-initiated creation of web browser windows and, later, tabs, over the years.
What initially bothered me, as I recall, was the offensive use of unexpected 'popup' browser windows and inappropriate automatic windows, tabs or redirects. My current personal stance is that I don't mind "expected" new windows or tabs that are appropriate to the context of the site and the web page functionality and that are documented or implied by visual cues. Many of the commercial web sites that I use make some use of either popup windows or new tabs. In general, I find that the context where a popup or a new tab is created to be reasonably clear and that its use enhances the usability of the site. ymmv On 1/28/2011 15:42, Eric Iverson wrote: > I haven't quite come to grips with jhs opening a new tab under program > control. This has been discussed in earlier beta messages. > > Currently the way in jhs is to run verb open (documented in jhelp) that puts > a link in the jijx window which you can then use as you see fit. > > open'~temp/edit.ijs' > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:08 PM, John Baker<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am in the process of updating JOD for j701. One of most useful JOD verbs >> is "ed" which fetches a >> a word, (or many words), from JOD databases, formats them as a script, and >> then opens that script for editing in what was a wd (.ijs) window. >> >> How do you open a script for editing in JGTK from the terminal session? I >> see the command on the >> JGTK menu so it must be buried in there somewhere. I would like something >> like: >> >> editverb 'c:/the/script/to/edit.ijs' >> >> or >> >> editverb 'some big long character list that just happens to be a j script' >> >> Extra points for doing exactly the same thing in the JHS environment - >> opening a new browser tab with an >> arbitrary script for editing. >> >> >> jdb >> >> -- >> John D. Baker >> [email protected] >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
