If you have pop-ups or window.focus() or both disabled, broadcast.yahoo.com appears blank. Here is the offending code, in an otherwise blank page: thiswin = window.open(Yahoo! Broadcast Media Helper); // makes sure you have all 3 media players (!) thiswin.focus(); window.location="http://broadcast.yahoo.com/home.html"; // page with content What Yahoo should do: 1. Short-term: * In the section of home.html that describes the Media Helper, provide a link that opens the helper instead of just saying "it appeared the first time you visited this site". Since this will be a link, it won't be subject to pop-up blocking. * Add some text to the front page so it isn't blank. * Remove the call to thiswin.focus(), which afaik doesn't do anything except cause problems for Mozilla users who have disabled the window.open (thiswin is null) or window.focus (the call throws an exception). 2. Long-term: * Make the Media Helper use the same browser window that I use to visit the site. * Don't require me to have three media players.

If thiswin.focus() can't be removed, it can be wrapped in if(thiswin) to prevent it from throwing an exception when thiswin is null.

reassigning to me. I will point them to this bug to see your feedback.

revised summary

Is the problem that focus() throws an exception when blocked by the security manager? If so, that's bug 122866.

No, the problem Yahoo runs into is that foo.focus() throws an exception when foo is null. I think that's Yahoo's bug, not ours.

tech evang june 2003 reorg

WFM Win2K Mozilla 1.3 Final It works when I block pop-ups, it works when I disallow window.focus(), it even works when I completely shut off JavaScript. Go Yahoo! -M