Re: New window for a CGI: thought Q & A

I had the same question myself, and appreciate the
answer. Then I posed this question to myself: why does
this work?

Then I hypothesized this answer: the onSubmit event
fires before Submit really happens. Javascript, being 
client-side, gets a crack at creating the target
window before the cgi program is invoked on the
server, and by the time the cgi returns a response to
the browser, the browser knows where to display it. 

Am I right, more or less?

David Mintz
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Southern District of New York
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--- Cyanide _7 <leo7278(at)hotmail.com> wrote:
> upon submitting the form, open a blank window with
> the same name as the 
> target of the form. that way once the window is
> created, the form should 
> automatically send its data to the new window via
> GET or POST:
> 
> <script>
> <!--
> function openWin(form){
>  
>
window.open('',form.target,"width=200,height=200,left=20,top=20");
>   return true;
> }
> //-->
> </script>
> 
> <form action="listserv.pl" method="POST"
> target="foobar"
>       onSubmit="return openWin(this);">
> <input type="text" name="email">
> <input type="checkbox" name="subscribe">
> </form>
> 
> kinda along those lines. - Cyanide_7
> 


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