Re: Strange behavior of showModalDialog/showModelessDialog on WinXP SP2/IE 6 SP2.

From: Manuel Vázquez Acosta (manu_at_chasqui.cu)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:54:23 -0400

Hum, ok, I won't make any comments or questions on how this could avoid such
a threat, I would rather make my point on the design effects this issue
brings up.

When making a web-driven application, some time we use showModalDialog to
display unavoidable messages the user should be aware or response to; ok?
It's quite common to put some buttons on the bottom of the window; you
expect the window to have no status bar, so you make your numbers to match
some well defined width and heigth values; now MS changes UI behavior and
all your buttons shows just its top halves.

Solutions:
    1. MS should change this to the former behaviour or check whether we
(their customers) wanted to show the status bar, in order to ADD the status
bar's height to the specified height.
    2. Designers are wrong, so they should have always showed the status
bar; so remake your numbers and always show statusbar; maybe next month you
will not be allowed to hide scroll bars - who knows?
    3. Move to Flash and forget all about worring about browser's
differences.

Regards,
Manuel.

"Michael Harris (MVP)" <mikhar at mvps dot org> wrote in message
news:esQY$b5nEHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > When I add the site to the Trusted Zone, then it behaves as expected
> > (a loose meaning of "as expected" - I expect it to work for all
> > zones).
>
>
> I would assume that the behavior is the result of recent IE security
> patches. There have been many changes in UI behavior over time with
respect
> to less than trusted security zones, all focused on making it more
difficult
> for malicious code to masquerade as something than other than web page
> content.
>
>
> --
> Michael Harris
> Microsoft.MVP.Scripting
> Sammamish WA US
>