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JavaScript Examples Bible: The Essential Companion to JavaScript Bible
Examples Highlights
✦ Listing 16-4 for the window.closed property demonstrates an industrialstrength
treatment of new window creation, which works with all scriptable
browsers (taking into account shortcomings of earlier browsers).
✦ NN4+ allows dynamic control over the presence of window chrome (statusbar,
toolbar, et al.) with the help of signed scripts, as shown in Listing 16-6.
Without signed scripts, or for IE, you must use window.open() to create a
separate window with the characteristics of your choice.
✦ The example listings for the window.opener property show you how scripts
from a subwindow communicate with the window that opened it.
✦ In the example listings for the window.parent property, you see how references
to the various synonyms for a window object within a frameset evaluate.
Thus, you can see what the references window, top, parent, and self mean
within a frameset.
✦ Compare Listings 16-20, 16-23, and 16-29 to understand not only the different
looks of the three native dialog box windows (alert, confirm, and prompt), but
also how values returned from two of them can influence script processing
sequences.
✦ A simple countdown timer in Listing 16-22 shows a practical application of the
window.clearTimeout() method. Here the method stops the looping timer
when the count reaches zero.
✦ Watch the browser window dance in Listing 16-24. The window.moveBy() and
window.moveTo() methods put window positioning through its paces.
✦ Examples for window.setInterval() and window.setTimeout() apply
these two similar methods to applications that are ideal for each one. You find
other applications of setTimeout() in examples for the window.closed
property and window.open() method.
✦ Internet Explorer’s modal and modeless dialog box windows get workouts in
Listings 16-39 through 16-42.
✦ The composition of a frameset, including the sizes of the frames, can be controlled
dynamically in IE4+ and NN6, as shown in examples for the FRAMESET.
cols and FRAMESET.rows properties.