Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Scripting Question
Author: Jim Lyon Posted: 9/20/2000; 2:38:56 PM Topic: Scripting Question Msg #: 21553 (In response to 21541) Prev/Next: 21552 / 21554
If I want a pop up window to happen when the user closes the window or types in and goes to a new URL, but NOT if they hit the back or forward buttons, does anybody know how I could script that?I hope you'll rethink your requirements. By the time a user hits a button to go somewhere else, his mind is already on the somewhere else. For you to pop up a window relevant to what he just left is to intrude rather rudely on his consciousness.
If you insist on doing this anyway, fortune.com has a big pile of javascript that tries to do the same thing. It's not exact, but is a fair approximation.
For myself, I've patched the object code of my browser to completely ignore onUnload methods, just so that I don't have to put up with sites that do what you're trying to do.
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