Windows XP SP2 Restrictions

[Guest]

Good afternoon:
I´ve been reading about WinXP SP2 restrictions and it talks about the new
restriction to only allow one pop-up per window, 1. will this affect windows
opened with the window.open method also? 2. Is there any way to disable this
security setting?
I also read that the new popupBlocker included in the SP2 will prevent
popups from being displayed except if created by a user click, 3. So if user
clicks on something that opens a new window (window.open) after some
javascript code lines, will this be blocked too? 4. Can I disable it?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi J,

I am not an IE developer but what I have seen with IE 7 the usability of
legitimate window.open calls is not impaired and that users have options to
enable all popups for trusted sites. The behavior of openmodaldialog and
openmodelessdialog and createpopup are effected by popup blocking and
security features (you cant hide the status bar or url address), but if you
are coding for multiple browsers platforms then the easiest method is to
keep your navigation "Flat" within frames instead of New Windows and use
hyperlinks instead of java scripting as only IE supports the openmodal etc
methods.

I have been using session variables to hold the value of the currently
loaded page and the referer. I find that this makes life easier and keeps
the site navigation linear.

Regards.

 

[Jportelas]

Thanks a lot for the reply Rob.

I'm glad to know that this restriction can be disabled when the site is
in the Trusted Sites group.
The problem is that we already have an intranet application with many
popups and that opens a lot of new windows, of course we will try to
change this as you suggested.

I hope this doesn´t affect us if some of the enterprise PCs have the
SP2 installed.

Thanks again.