Hi, I would like to be able to have a user click an image map on my site, and pop up a 300x300 window in the center of the screen. I have accomplished this with javascript, but the problem is, it doenst work until i click the yellow bar at the top of IE and allow scripts to run.

Is there a way to accomplish this without making the user accept my script? thanks!

If there was, that would make the popup blocker a little useless....

Yeah, so it's 2006 and I can't have a link on my site that pops a 300 by 300 pixel window in the center of the end user's screen? WTF?

The problem with your question is the perspective you're looking at it from.

"I can't have a link on my site that pops a 300 by 300...?"

Step back and look at your situation from the user perspective. And before you jump to conclusions, go to a site like www.prowrestling.com and surf around (even if you're not interested in wrestling, watch what happens after a few pages).

You see those popups that get blocked? Or do you even see the odd one that gets through? Imagine if they all got through...for example, on a machine running Windows 2000 or earlier and without a popup blocker installed. Do you see how that might be annoying?

That doesn't even take into account the number of drive-by software installs that occur through the popup method.

That's why your popup isn't working. It's due to abuse of the concept.

The question that I have is...why do you need a popup window so badly that you can't put the same content above the fold on your page in a visible area?

Interesting. I thought there would be some way to get around it. Suppose the user decides to click a link on my site, wouldn't that itself be a valid form of knowing that the user wants to interact with my site?

I can see how blocking an automated request from the site would be beneficial, but what happens when the user's mouse action generates a request for a pop up?

thanks for the info

Popups are a nightmare and the beneficial ones are simply inundated by the bad ones. Nobody likes a site that opens doxens of other windows its a pain in the rear. Thus you get the popup blockers.

However you can confugure your popup blocker (you can in FF anyway) to allow popups from certain sites.

Ibbo

I can see how blocking an automated request from the site would be beneficial, but what happens when the user's mouse action generates a request for a pop up?

Because again, people can abuse it. For example, putting a bit of JS to open a popup when someone clicks on a link that's supposed to take them to another page in the site (i.e. it does both)

If you make it obvious enough that a popup window is supposed to open, and people trust your site, they will most likely disable their popup blocker for your site.