The right way to create pop-up windows
Forget everything you know about creating pop-up windows. Most importantly, forget you ever knew that the javascript pseudo-protocol ever existed . Do you hear me??
Never, ever, ever use the javascript: pseudo-protocol for anything, ever ever ever ever again. Please. Pretty please. The next time I click on a hyperlink, only to have it cause an error in my browser, I am going to hunt down the author and pound them into holy oblivion.
and the correct code is as follows:
<a
href="http://google.com/"
onclick="window.open(this.href, 'popupwindow',
'width=400,height=300,scrollbars,resizable');
return false;"
>
Click me any way you desire, now or later, bookmarked or not.
I will not attempt to control you, nor punish you, for I am a
simple hyperlink; eager to do your bidding, while remaining ever
helpful. I anticipating desires, but never trample possibilities.
This is the way of the Link.
</a>
See also the comments
for subtleties, such as pop-up forms.
[Via Jim O’Halloran]
