DebugBar forums / Opening a new window

Kral · 2009-04-01 02:03:41

In IE8 and 7 using JS to open a new window causes an immediate crash in that Vista reports 'program stopped working'.

In IE6 5.5 the JS engine inside IETester reports a JS error on the write new window line but the window is opened.

Operating under Vista Home premium.

Last edited by Kral (2009-04-01 02:04:33)

fabrice · 2009-04-01 08:04:57

Can you give a sample url where I can reproduce the problem ?

Thanks.

Kral · 2009-04-01 17:44:53

Here a program that will illustrate the problem.

The behavior of IETester is not totally consistent except that this works in standalone IE7 and in FF, Opera, Safrai(win) and Chrome. None of the IETester versions open a new window -- the exact expression of the fault(s) varies with the version and the page containing the new window request.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head>
<title>Write new window</title>
<meta name="title" content="new window test">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=uft-8">

<script type="text/javascript">
function wwwopen() {
window1=window.open("","window1")
window1.document.write("new window")
window1.document.close() }
--></script>

</head>
<body><p><button onclick="wwwopen()">Open New Window</button></p></body>
</html>

fabrice · 2009-04-01 17:58:20

Under IETester window.open does not return the newly created window so far and returns null.
That's why it is not working.

This will be corrected in a future IETester version.

Kral · 2009-04-02 00:54:37

You are moving along nice -- once a problem is well defined it can be dealt with.

Thanks.

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#1 2009-04-01 02:03:41

Opening a new window - problems

#2 2009-04-01 08:04:57

Re: Opening a new window - problems

#3 2009-04-01 17:44:53

Re: Opening a new window - problems

#4 2009-04-01 17:58:20

Re: Opening a new window - problems

#5 2009-04-02 00:54:37

Re: Opening a new window - problems