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Aug 13.2009

Hey guys. Newbie to the forum. I’m sure my question is posted somewhere but I couldn’t really find anything.

This is really basic, but evidently I’m suffering from temporary Alzheimer’s.

I have and image map that uses a popup onCLick. It works fine in Firefox, but nothing else.

What is the [if] statement for browser detection. my small bit of script is below.

Thanks in advance.

function popup(mylink, windowname)
{
if (! window.focus)return true;
var href;
if (typeof(mylink) == ‘string’)
href=mylink;
else
href=mylink.href;
window.open(href, windowname, ‘toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,directories=0,width=300,height=300,left = 490,top = 362’);
return false;
}

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@J2NYCAug 13.2009 — I've noticed the IE chokes if you fill in the window name. You might try leaving that as null and see if that works.
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@beahumanauthorAug 13.2009 — Thanks for the quick reply, but that didn't fix it.
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@J2NYCAug 13.2009 — Sorry. It's worked for me in the past.

The code for accessing the browser name is

var browser=navigator.appName;

in IE and AOL IE this will return "Microsoft."
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