[WEB4LIB] raising open windows to the foreground

[Eric Hellman]

The answer is yes, but.... The link on page B just has to target the 
same window with the target attribute of the anchor tag.

but...  you have might not have control over how or whether the page 
is loaded- that gets determined by a combination of http header 
directives and the user's browser preferences. Also there's a 
subtlety about bringing the target window to the front; it won't get 
done automatically on the second link in some web browsers. This is 
most easily done by a 1-line javascript on the loaded page.

I am insufficiently polite to write anything about putting passwords 
in the URL.

Eric

At 9:08 PM -0800 1/22/03, Walter Giesbrecht wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out how to do something that is easy to
>show, but hard (for me, at least) to explain clearly. What I want
>to do is something like this:
>
>A link in a document in browser window 'A' opens page '1' in a
>new window 'B', which remains open. Later on, a link to page '1'
>appears again in window 'A'. Can the user simply be transferred
>to the still-open document in window 'B' (i.e., by having it
>brought to the foreground) without having to load it again?
>
>The reason for not wanting to load it again involves not wanting
>to type in a username and password again; the method described by
>the vendor of the database to pass along the username/password in
>the URL deosn't seem to work. Any ideas?
>
>--
>
>Walter Giesbrecht                               walterg at yorku.ca
>Data Librarian
>York University, Toronto, CANADA


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