popup problems

[Garrett]

hello

using this popup script below (fairly standard and normal)...

//THIS IS THE SCRIPT FOR ANY POPUPS
function popup(page, name, xsize, ysize) {

var yes = 1;
var no = 0;
var menubar = no; // The File, Edit, View Menus
var scrollbars = yes; // Horizontal and vertical scrollbars
var locationbar = no; // The location box with the site URL
var directories = no; // the "What's New", "What Cool" links
var resizable = no; // Can the window be resized?
var statusbar = no; // Status bar (with "Document: Done")
var toolbar = no; // Back, Forward, Home, Stop toolbar

var myleftpos = (window.screen.width/2) - (xsize + 30);
var mytoppos = (window.screen.height/2) - (ysize + 40);

windowprops = "width=" + xsize + ",height=" + ysize + ",top=" + mytoppos + ",left=" + myleftpos + "";


windowprops += (menubar ? ",menubars" : "") +
(scrollbars ? ",scrollbars" : "") +
(locationbar ? ",location" : "") +
(directories ? ",directories" : "") +
(resizable ? ",resizable" : "") +
(statusbar ? ",status" : "") +
(toolbar ? ",toolbar" : "");

window.open(page, name, windowprops);
}


and what i am passing it is

"javascriptopup('http://www.bob.com/', 'conception', '300', '300')"

so basically the url is on another server, the result explorer crashes! anyone know why??, problems with accessing urls on other servers??

it works when i pass a url on the same server!


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Garrett

[cow]

hmmm, i pasted that script and it worked fine for me. i'm using win98 and ie5.

[Garrett]

well i aint imagining it, got my friend to test it and it crashed his mac.

for me it consistantly crashes explorer.

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Garrett

[cow]

whoa! calm down

what ver browser/os are you using?

have you tried just bypassing the function and open up that url with the window.open(); function?

have you tried to open other remote urls with that function?

[Garrett]

eh! i'm calm! no really!!

mac g3 OS8.6 with explorer 5.1
he (friend) g4 OS9 with explorer 5.1

as i said anything i trigger on the same server works but as soon as i pass it a full address with http - crashes

thing is this is like a script i have stuck in a linked .js file which is used all over my site for different stuff, and this is the first time i used it to launch an external site and noticed it had a problem, so for me its a bit of a bizare one! esp when this happened on two seperate computers.

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Garrett

[cow]

yes, this is a bizarre problem! i don't really know what could be the problem. if it worked in the past but no longer works, maybe it has something to do with a new piece of software you installed???

i dunno...

[Garrett]

as i said its the first time i've used it with a full address like "http://www.bob.com/index.html" before it was always with "../holder.html" or "new.html".

anyway have'nt tried to debug it as of yet cos i've been doing other stuff, so i need to cut the script down to as minimal as possible to see if something is messing up.

thanks for your help, anyway.

Garrett