My site has a Send Message button next to the link to a users profile. When the user clicks on it (using the onClick handler) I want to open a Facebook-style message window, instead of a new window (window.open() method).
It doesn't have to be exactly the same as Facebook's, but I want a similar kind of thing.
Check out Jquery-UI. they have a lot of popuppable windows. Probably want to couple that with some Ajax, and bam, dynamic message popups.
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I am facing a new requirement. My website has email sending facility, which contains links also. What I need is to show popup when I click on the link in the email contents, the contents may or may not be from the website. Which methods I can do for achieving this?
The only way is to have a link to an external page that will open in a browser and execute the popup.
If the content is not from a website I can't see a way of doing this. It will require javascript which cannot be used in an email.
guys
now i knew how to send message without using facebook api,
i could use url to fill the message textarea in facebook's website
www.facebook.com/messages/[user_id]?msg_prefill=XXX
but here i'd like to know how to send this message automatically
in April, i found a way to click "send" button automatically (find "send" button in html text and click it),
but now facebook hide theses html text so that i can't find this button in html text.
Therefore, can anybody provide some ways or point to send message automatically.
thanks
Use the console in you browser (usually F12 to open) firefox console is the most powerfull, your console should have a command like "element inspection" or similar, use this tool to analize the button you want, read ing the code you should find someting like "on click" or simsimilar, after this you will find a java command to push the button. Anyway to do this kind of stuff without being a programmer,use selenium IDE, very easy,only for firefox,you must download it from firefox as add on. Good luck!
I associated a Facebook account with my GaiaOnline account; we use Connect to accomplish this. I created a JS Like button for a page at FB's dedicated page: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
The Like button's code was
Upon clicking the Like button in XP/firefox 3.6.13, while logged into Gaia and FB, a popup window rapidly opens and closes cyclically until the process is terminated. This behavior is not repeatable on other windows machines, macs or chrome. Presumably this is Facebook trying to initiate a FB login page, per their third-party login process: developers.facebook.com/blog/post/312
My history identifies this page as "http://www.facebook.com/connect/connect_to_external_page_widget_loggedin.php?social_plugin=like&external_page_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftest135.open.dev.gaiaonline.com%2Fforum%2Fentertainment-discussion%2Fthe-roommate-what-s-the-best-thing-about-having-a-roommate%2Ft.67947263%2F".
A video of this transpiring is uploaded to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1asJ4kMNL6w
What is causing the popup behavior, and what can be done to fix it?
Try enabling 3rd party cookies
http://support.mozilla.com/kk/questions/761194#answer-127335
There is a link in a spring-webflow2 based application which start different flows. Flows are shown in popup (popup=true). If the session is expired or server is unavailable, the spring-webflow shows small empty popup with "Ajax Request Error" tooltip shown on mouse over. Is it possible to tweak the popup in order to give the user an ability to either re-login or to just close the popup and retry the request?
EDIT: Or maybe some ideas how to force Spring-Dojo to make a redirect to login page?
The problem is that the session is gone and so is the conversation/flow in it. So there's no easy way to make the popup work again, because the conversation or flow state must be restored. I think the best you could achieve would be to somehow convince Dojo to redirect back to the login url.
Google's AdWords policies state:
Pop-Ups
Don't use pop-up windows on your site.
We do not approve destination URLs that generate pop-ups when users enter
or leave your landing page.
We consider a pop-up to be any window, regardless of content, that opens
in addition to the original window.
This includes pop-unders, timed or intermittent pop-ups, mock system
warnings, and pages that automatically initiate a download.
Does anyone know if that includes Lightbox effect popups that occur within the same browser window, and just lay on top of the content? The terms "popup" and "window" are ambiguous in the above policy, and it's not clear whether by "window" they mean simply the browser window, or whether the Lightbox content would count as a new window.
Anyone know for sure?
As long as the lightbox opens only on user's direct action of, supposedly, clicking a thumbnail to open a bigger version, I don't think it's treated as a popup per se.
Opening a pop-up/pop-under on page open or leave, or through clickjacking is evil and those are the cases condemned by the policy.
Here's a blog post from Adwords team about why popups are disapproved. You can see that lightbox does not fit the profile.