So far the only reliable way I've found is to avoid pop-ups in favor of
hidden DIVs containing IFRAME.
Then, instead of opening a pop-up, you just change the *display* property by
Javascript.

On 3/14/07, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Perdue, Blake wrote:
> We've gotten a lot of complaints lately that popup windows spawned by a
> SWF are getting blocked by pop-up blockers, even though they are user
> initiated. It seems the newer flash players (v8, v9) or perhaps the new
> pop-up blockers (Firefox, Google, etc) have changed the way they operate
> - this didn't used to be a problem for us.

Yes, this can be a problem -- different browser extensions work in
different ways, and respond to different JavaScript events, so it's hard
to make a one-size-fits-all solution.

One bit of consolation: someone who installs a rogue window-blocker will
be visiting more sites than just yours, so they would become familiar
with any feedback the blocker and/or browser offer about windows the
browser didn't open.

Another tack you might try, to give visitors consistent feedback about
what their browser isn't doing, might be to try a localConnection test
from the original SWF to the popup SWF, after waiting a suitable
interval... if the second SWF never opened, then the first SWF can
advise that there may be a window-blocker in the visitor's browser.

jd








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