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allow websites to prompt for information using scripted windows

I think I've used FF so long now and NOT IE that I've become dumb to IE 7 and 8.

So this is a very late question and I'm sure everyone knows by now but "allow websites to prompt for information using scripted windows"...did this replace the allow javascript in the Advanced tab?

Holy sh**, I can't believe it, but I haven't used IE in like 2 years as a developer other than to test the site I am building but never had to enable this in the custom security for my javascript windows to pop....so why did I have to do this now...the site I am trying to use is a cold fusion site, does that make any difference? I am not coding in cold fusion but one of our legacy apps is made in cold fusion and throws javascript windows up.

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Came in with IE 7, it seems (search for window.prompt in the IE 7 release notes).

So, this is an IE & JavaScript thing, not ColdFusion-specific.

Them’s the breaks.

Paul D. Waite  2009-12-21 22:53:16
looks to me like a bad usability issue. I've never seen anyone prompt like this in a JS window to add information to a textbox.
CoffeeAddict  2009-12-21 23:14:14
I’ve never seen a site that used window.prompt, to be honest. A move like this from Microsoft does effectively kill that particular language feature; as you say, it’s not great for the user if they get a security warning just because you asked them to type something in.
Paul D. Waite  2009-12-21 23:22:48

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