How do you get window.open to work in internet explorer 7?

Question

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get my svg web site to open popups, and all I ever get is "Permission Denied" errors in internet explorer. I've tried everything I could find on google, and nothing works. I've even gone to the point of just calling window.open() blank with no parameters, and still get a permission denied error. What is the currently accepted standard for opening popups in internet explorer... that works?

Answer 1

This is part of the security changes made in IE6. Now you can only call "window.open" from within a user-initiated event. For example, your code would work inside an element's onclick event. The "window.open" MSDN page says this:

"This method must use a user-initiated action, such as clicking on a link or tabbing to a link and pressing enter, to open a pop-up window. The Pop-up Blocker feature in Internet Explorer 6 blocks windows that are opened without being initiated by the user."