Actually, I do this all the time. I got tired of having to deal with people pushing the back button at the most opportune times :)
I open the window which becomes the main window of the app with Toolbar=no and then I have a JavaScript which prevents right-click Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-witango-talk@;witango.com] On Behalf Of Atrix Wolfe Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Closing a browser window without user clicking I was thinkin Ben that if you had a system where the user must login, maybe after the user logs in, it could make a popup window and thats where the app itself is, then at any time you wanted you could close the window from within the app and theyd find themselves right back at the login screen (: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Closing a browser window without user clicking > Hi, > > Atrix gave an excellent example on this question. > > I just wanted to bring up the point that it works great on child browser > windows, which are browser windows opened with window.open() > > If you are talking about closing the main window, then the browser is > going to squawk an force the user to answer the question like > "The Web page you are viewing is trying to close the window" > "Do you want to close the window?" > > I have yet to find a way around this > > Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com > Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm > Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:owner-witango-talk@;witango.com] On Behalf Of rich Jasinski > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:24 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Subject: Witango-Talk: Closing a browser window without user clicking > > Is there a way to close a browser window without the user clicking a > button? > I have a taf that looks at a table and if there is a value in a field it > does a redirect to a page. If the value is not there I want to close the > browser. > > rich > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
