Hi David: thanks for your response. I don't think I have the same circumstances you describe but not sure, would you mind looking at this page: http://www.mainehumanities.org/programs/litandmed/synapse/sym-temp/feature_s07.html#
Thanks again David:
It is the same circumstances as I described previously, although my browser seems to have become smarter since I last ran across anyone doing something like that and doesn't automatically give the window a focus to lose when it opens now (of course, if I want to copy/paste data from it, then I'm going to run into trouble no matter what techniques I use to focus windows).
not sure why there would be trouble copy/pasting data, i don't have any trouble selecting it.
Dealing with that tiny window is something of a annoyance though, especially at largish font sizes.
yes, i know. but i did just increase the font size at least once and it felt reasonable to me, not a lot of scrolling and, of course, its easy to scroll down with the arrow/cursor keys.
* href="#" - a link to the top of the page is a pretty poor fallback should the JavaScript not run for any reason.
not sure what you're talking about here, i guess the link at the bottom, but it does work without javascript.
* onclick="javascript:something" - "javascript" isn't a great name for a label, and there isn't any loop here to label (that syntax does not mean 'this event handler is written in JavaScript').
i really don't understand this. i didn't write the javascript, i really know nothing about it other than to copy and implement. i would imagine the js i got for this (2 years ago) could be better, and i would hope i would get a better one if i was doing it now. i thought asking such a simple question about the "onblur" would show that i was pretty ignorant vis a vis js. i did buy Peter Paul Koch's new book recently, hoping to improve my js skills. And, it was helpful reading the theory but his examples were beyond my following.
* The links in the site bar are the ultimate in mystery meat navigation. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html
yes, i know! i didn't like them then, don't like them now. was powerless to override the designer and client! this is a small sub-piece of the main site. the main site is up for re-design and i'm digging in my heals to get a standards compliant, accessible and reasonable design - wish me luck!
i still wish someone would tell me more why "onblur" to close the window is "bad". I know that pop-ups are sorta frowned upon and that was why i put it in the subject line, to say right off that i had a "nasty" pop-up question but i'm disappointed to not get more response.
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