in reply to CGI new window fixed dimension

It appears that you've already got the answers you need to do what you want to do. This may come off sounding like a rant - I suppose it is. It's not a personal attack.

I'm going to ask you to reconsider whether you should do what you want.
Please don't.
I browse the web using (most of the time) Mozilla. I've got it set up to ignore Javascript etc, to ban the creation of new windows, even when the site designer uses the target="_new" method listed by tachyon above. I keep my menubars intact at all times, after all, they're my menubars, not the website's.

What you're trying to do is enforce the way your website is used. What if some of your users are blind/partially-sighted? What if they're using a text-based web browser? Attempts to change their browsers' behaviour will at best go ignored, at worst render your site unusable. Surely you want your website to be as usable as possible?

I can recommend reading Use it - a pretty helpful starting point for website usability. Yes, I've broken some of the guidelines on that site before.

Cheers

davis
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
Update: s/useful/helpful/;

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Re: Re: CGI new window fixed dimension
by menolly (Hermit) on Sep 30, 2003 at 17:50 UTC
    Here is an informative Anti-Javascript FAQ, too.
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Re: Re: CGI new window fixed dimension
by Discipulus (Canon) on Oct 01, 2003 at 08:51 UTC
    thanks Davis!!

    I have your same ideas about browsing the net but here my case now:

    I'm trying to develop a cgi web interface for the help desk of my job and they all have to use msIE (this is my real world job)..

    this pop-up-like window is intended to show the resolved IP of a gived hostname via a hyperlink..

    My constant goal is resolve my problems WITHOUT have to learning vbc js or C#

    greetings from not-so-sunny-today
    lor*
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      Ok, cool, you've vindicated yourself :-) - you're designing for a very specific internal audience (or at least it is until your employer hires somebody that's unable to use IE).

      If you've already resolved the IP address of the hostname, you may wish to try using the "title" attribute of hypertext links - something like the following (which validates just fine): 

      <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w
+3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
        <head>
                <title>HTML Test</title>
                <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equ
+iv="Content-Type" />
        </head>
<body>

<div>
<a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/" title="209.197.123.153">Testing</a
+>
</div>
</body>
</html>

      [download]

      This pops up a "tooltip"-style help box containing the "title" string when you hover your mouse over the link (assuming you've got one). I'd make the link target a HTML page that also produces the same information, so that people who can't use the title information can still get the IP address etc.

      Cheers
      davis
      It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
      Update: Added link to w3c validator.
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