window.blur() and window.focus() in AOL

[robelius]

I've written an Instant Messaging program for my site which works great in Netscape and IE. When a person logs into my site, the parent window spawns a small monitor window continually refreshes and polls the mysql database to detect the presence of messages for the user. I use a Javascript window.blur()to hide the monitor while the user navigates the site in the parent window. When a message is found in the database, I use window.focus() to bring the monitor window containing the message to the front. This system doesn't work in AOL because the window.blur() and window.focus() commands hide or display the entire AOL browser, not the monitor window.

Does anyone know a method of focusing and blurring popup windows spawned in AOL? I would really appreciate some help.

 

[ehari]

this technique will not at all work on AOL...u could popup the monitor screen on each page if the member has any messages instead of polling the mysql database everytime.

think smart !