Thanks for your reply, John.
Your code example didn't solve the problem it just opened duplicate
tabs each time the link was clicked in Google Chrome & Firefox.
Testing it with Safari on the Mac it didn't open a new tab, but a new
window just as the code example I provided did.
There were reasons why it was done that way which aren't relevant to
the initial problem and questions relating to my posting. As for your
harsh criticisms, I suspect you are simply having a bad day and hope
it gets better for you soon.
David Roth
On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:59 AM, John Campbell wrote:
I don't know why this isn't working, but using window.open is a
terrible practice.
What is wrong with:
<a href="http://face..."; target="friend">Become a friend on
Facebook:</a>
If you do it that way it loads in a new tab, which is much faster than
creating a new window, and doesn't irritate the user. Why would you
want to create a window that is not resizable and without a location
bar? That is just plain rude. Thank god all decent browsers ignore
it.
-John Campbell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:56 PM, David Roth
<davidalanr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I was successfully using Javascript code for years to open a new
browser
window and assign it a unique name without any problems. That is,
until now.
:-)
The following Javascript code works properly with any other website
I've
tried, except for facebook.com:
<a href="javascript: void(0)"
onclick="window.open('http://facebook.com/USERNAME_GOES_HERE',
'windowname1',
'width=600, \
height=500, \
directories=no, \
location=no, \
menubar=no, \
resizable=no, \
scrollbars=1, \
status=no, \
toolbar=no');
return false;">Become a friend on Facebook:</A>
The above action, will open a window, but if the visitor to the web
page
clicks on that same link again, it opens yet another new window. It
shouldn't do that, because 'windowname1' should simply cause the
user to
bring that window up front, not create a duplicate window each time
the link
is clicked.
I have tried variations of the above code, but they all fail as I
described
when it comes to facebook.com, but works well on many other
websites I
tried.
I'm not a web browser guru, so I can only guess at how the
internals of it
work for assigned 'windowname1'. But here is my theory and I'd
greatly
appreciate comments on this. I suspect that when facebook.com is
loaded it
immediately renamed the assigned window to some unique window name
perhaps
with embedded UNIX time stamp to make it extremely unique. If my
theory is
correct, is there any way to have your own window name be used
instead? Or
is there some other Javascript coding method to accomplish this with
Facebook.com that someone is just itching to tell me about? If my
theory is
wrong about facebook.com, can someone explain why they might be
doing this
and what advantage is there to Facebook.com being more difficult
than the
other websites? :-)
Thanks in advance,
David Roth
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