RE: Re: Linking to anchors within a "spawned" page -- WEB400

Normally I would agree.  I'm not a fan of pop-up windows on websites, mostly
because they are spawned at inconvenient times for frivolous purposes.  That
being said, I use pop-ups on our membership site for Administrative work.
Our site subscribers have the ability to manage a pool of users internally,
so all of the user functions open there own windows.

This has several advantages: the administrator can still see the list of
users on the parent screen and they can't lose their place on the site.
This last one may seem insulting, but believe me the bulk of our users just
aren't comfortable with computers, the Internet, browsing, etc., so it is a
real help to them to know that if they open something erroneously they can
just close the new window and go about their business without needing to
find their place again.  Also, I control the features of that window, so
they are not full blown browsers, just little self-contained children: no
search bar, no toolbars, just the frame.  It is a very clean solution.

I use the same logic for any link that sends our users to any site outside
our domain.  Once again they do not lose their place on our site and can
still go visit other sites.  These are regular browser windows so they can
do what they like there without affecting our service.

I understand your rational "The choice should be left up to the person
viewing the site", but the assumption here is that the user knows you can
open links in separate windows and how to do so.  I guess as with everything
else it really depends on your audience.

Jon, if you want some JS examples I would be happy to post some here.

Joel R. Cochran
Director of Internet Services
VamaNet.com
(800) 480-8810
webmaster@vamanet.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Boldt [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:02 AM
> To: web400@midrange.com
> Subject: [WEB400] Re: Linking to anchors within a "spawned" page
>
>
> Jon Paris wrote:
> > Thanks to both Hans and David - that worked fine - but
> (there's always
> > a
> > but) the page is being repositioned but doesn't get focus.
> Any cure for
> > that?
>
> Jon:  You could probably do something in JavaScript for that,
> but you'd have to refer to someone who actually knows (or
> likes) JS for specifics.
>
> Personally, I rather dislike web sites that insist on opening
> up new browser windows.  The choice should be left up to the
> person viewing the site, IMHO.  (Most browsers already give
> you the choice
> anyways.) If you need to display information in two panes
> simultaneously, there are better design methods than putting
> up two windows.  For example, you could use frames (if you're
> desparate), but there are still even better methods, some
> involving CSS.
>
> Cheers!  Hans
>
>
>
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