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Re: setting a browser window name in WebObjects
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Re: setting a browser window name in WebObjects


  • Subject: Re: setting a browser window name in WebObjects
  • From: Denis Stanton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:22:56 +1200

Hi Chuck

Thank you. Nice answer, and it almost works. (well it really does work, but not on my browser of choice)

Unfortunately it would appear that Safari does not understand the window.name setting. In Safari a link with target="mainWindow" will use an existing window that has been named mainWindow by being opened by a previous link that specified target="mainWindow". If no such window exists it creates one. It does not seem to recognise an existing window that has been named with <body onLoad="window.name='mainWindow';>

Perversely (from my point of view) Internet Explorer on Mac does what I want. If I let WO open my first window with <body onLoad="window.name='mainWindow';">, a later link with < target="mainWindow" ... will go back to that window.

After using Safari for some time IE, once my favourite, seems so ugly. I don't want to go back to it. Since my client is likely to be Windows-based I suppose it doesn't matter. Maybe I should file a request for Safari

Thanks for you help

Any other suggestion as to how I can name the first browser window in Safari would be welcome.

Denis

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 04:51  PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

At 01:40 PM 07/08/2003 +1200, Denis Stanton wrote:

Now my problem. How do I give the first browser window opened by my app a window name?

I've used this once before for a similar problem. To be honest, I don't
recall if it worked or not. There was a lot of other funky stuff going on.
Worth a quick try though...


Make the Body tag dynamic and add this binding:

onLoad = "window.name='mainwindow';"

A more nasty solution is to have the main window refresh every few seconds...


HTH

Chuck


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