IE7 has no back button in popups

[Lauren]

I emailed the OP privately because this isn't TW, but he mentioned that the
javascript had "location" set to "no" and "toolbars" set to "yes."  Toolbars
controls the toolbars of the new browser window and location controls the
navigation buttons.  Setting "location" to "yes" brought back the navigation
buttons.  I thought that was good information for understanding browser
popup windows.

Lauren 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco.net at lists.techwr-l.com 
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco.net at lists.techwr-l.com
> ] On Behalf Of AL Geist
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 6:56 AM
> To: 'Beth Agnew'; techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: RE: IE7 has no back button in popups
> 
> I may be confused over what the original poster was 
> complaining about, but
> there is a difference between a popup and jumping to a new 
> web page. In a
> popup, there are no forward or back pages, there is just the popup;
> therefore, there are no forward or back buttons. This is not 
> a fault of IE7,
> its common web design.
> 
> I use popups on some of my pages just to highlight particular 
> items, or give
> additional information, they are intended to be closed when 
> the viewer is
> done reading/viewing them. They are not to be used the same 
> as a webpage.
> Jumping to a different URL is different. If you jump to a new 
> URL and there
> are no navigation arrows, then the web developer designed it 
> that way to
> keep you from using his/her website as a jumping off point to 
> navigate to
> other sites, including competitors.
> 
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