[TriLUG] Web again: do something, then close browser

Andrew Perrin clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Thu Jun 19 15:42:09 EDT 2003


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Magnus wrote:

>
> On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:16 PM, Andrew Perrin wrote:
>
> > On the survey page I'm working on, I open a new window to allow the
> > respondent to enter more entries in a list of organizational
> > affiliations.
>
> Have you checked to see if this will work with browsers that block
> pop-ups?
>

No - good thinking. You can tell I'm not a web designer except when I'm
working on unfunded research projects :)

> > It's trivial to make a button that will close the browser I've brought
> > up
> > for this secondary screen. But what I need to do is have a button that
> > will first submit the data from the screen, *then* close the browser.
> > Any
> > ideas? Effectively, I think what I need is code that a perl script can
> > send to a browser to close itself when the script is loaded.
>
> *moment of silence*
>
> Maybe I missed something here, but are you talking about just any old
> person out on the internet logging into this poll application, or is
> this a farm of client machines that is yours?
>

Somewhere in between - it's a specific group of people logging in from
their own machines.

ap


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