IE7 RC1 window.close() issue
We have a web application that we are currently testing with IE7 RC1 in order to be ready for the release of IE7.
We often open new browser windows using script (i.e. window.open()) but have found that whenever we attempt to close the child window using script (i.e. window.close()) we are prompted with the message "The webpage you are viewing is trying to close the tab. Do you want to close this tab?"
We do not have this issue with IE6 and have not yet been able to track down the reason for the issue in IE7 RC1.
I understand that you cannot close a browser window through script that has not been opened with script. But in our case, we are opening the child window with script. Can anybody tell me the circumstances under which this message might be displayed even when the window was opened by script?
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dgracey] at [2007-12-25]
Hi Dave,
Actually, I have done some more research on my issue and have narrowed it down to loading an XML document with a linked XSL Transform (launched via script). I opened a new thread with the details...
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=781921&SiteID=1
Please let me know if you can provide some insight into this. We are desparately trying to solve this in time for the final release of IE7.
Thanks, David
I never did find a fix for this issue so my guess is it's either a bug in IE7 or Microsoft has changed the way it handles loading XML files with the stylesheet processing instruction.
My workaround was to essentially launch an empty html page with javascript that loads the XML document and performs the XSL Transformation using the MSXML parser... then load the resultant HTML into the body (or an empty div) using the innerHTML property.
I would very much prefer to do this with my orginal method so I'm hoping this gets addressed at some point!
