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Re: A Popup! In Mozilla!

From: Duncan Hill <dhill+fulldisc () cricalix net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:20:35 +0100
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 05:13, James Woodcock wrote:

This might seem like it should be going to a webdev list, but there's a
possible security implication, so here goes;

http://2-spyware.com/file-cnfrm-exe.html

In Mozilla 1.5 and FireFox 0.9 with the pop-up blocker turned on, I get
a pop-up! It's purporting to be an important notice from my Network
Administrator - you'll probably recognise it;


Not a popup in the traditional sense, merely a DIV layer that sits above the 
main page content.  Konqueror loads it too, but gets the rendering levels 
slightly wrong (or right) and the page just looks a bit wrong.

Traditional popups are created with javascript, which is what the popup 
blockers look for (afaik) - window.open.


Is a web browser supposed to be able to render code outside the
<html></html> tags?


I don't think they're meant to, but many of them do anyway.

As for IE - IE does weird shit with pages.

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