Set innerHeight also for IE
I’m really not a fan of popup windows within a website. But sometimes it really makes sense. For example for a little campaign which is more or less a microsite. But you want not to lose the website context. In this case i would “allow” to open the campaign in a popup window.
The popup window should of course be as small as possible and should resize to the campaigns size. But because you never know which kind of Browsertoolbars the user have installed ( and you don’t want to disallow all tool- and browserbars ) you can’t really set the window size, because the IE does not support the innerHeight or innerWidth attribute of the window-element.
swfInputs: Solving Mozilla + Transparent Mode + Win + Special Chars within inputs
As you probably know the Flash Player uses three different types of modes an Flash movie is embedded in the browser window. Its is set via the wmode parameter in the embed or param tag.
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <embed wmode="transparent" ...
With the transparent mode you can influence the relation between the Flash movie an the surrounding HTML. If the set the wmode to window the Flash movie will always lay on top of the rest of the page. This is absolutly helpfull if your application is “standalone”, means the only center of user interaction or if you have an full window application ( at least with full screen ).
But often you have other HTML elements around the Flash movie which are at the same level of user interaction and might be as important as the Flash movie ( Best example might by fly-out menus which has to overlay all other content. Or maybe confirm messages which are not realized by the JavaScript confirm-dialog ). If you use wmode window html elements will always behind the Flash movie (setting the html z-index has no effect ), so there is no real interaction between HTML/JavaScript an the Flash movie. For this you need wmode equals transparent.
