I know that popup windows are being frowned upon at most times. However, I personally like the use of a popup window to obtain the larger version of an image thumbnail on a page. I make liberal use use of this on my web pages. One of my attempts of a popup image window is described here.
The Java function that does most of the work is placed in the popup.js file:
function popup(url,img_h,img_v,caption,title)
{
img_h_space = 20;
img_v_space = 75;
window_h = parseInt(img_h) + img_h_space;
window_v = parseInt(img_v) + img_v_space;
options = 'toolbar=0' +
',status=0' +
',menubar=0' +
',scrollbars=0' +
',resizable=0' +
',width=' + window_h +
',height=' + window_v;
img_tag = '<img src="'+url+'" width="'+img_h+'" height="'+img_v+'">';
if (!title)
title = caption;
content =
'<html>\n'+
'<head><title>'+title+'<\/title><\/head>\n' +
'<body bgcolor="#ffffff"><div class="popup">' + img_tag +
'<p>' + caption + '<br>' +
'<a href="javascript:window.close();">Close Window<\/a>' +
'<\/div><\/body>\n' +
'<\/html>';
if (typeof(viewImg) == 'object' && !viewImg.closed)
viewImg.close();
viewImg = window.open('','viewImg',options);
if (!viewImg.opener)
viewImg.opener = self;
viewImg.document.open();
viewImg.document.write(content);
viewImg.document.close();
viewImg.focus();
}
This funtion is included by these statements between the head tags of the web page:
<script src="../../common/javascript/validator.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
I usually use two different resolutions for images. The thumbnail on the page is scaled to a width if 150 pixels and the larger popup image is scaled to a width of 450 pixels. The following link below is W3C compliant. For Java capable browsers the larger image will appear in a popup window and for non-Java browsers the link we be followed and the large image will appear in the current window. Ideally the text quoted below should be all on one line.
<a
href="images-450.jpg"
onClick="popup('images-450.jpg','450','600','Caption');
return false;">
<img src="images-150.jpg"
align="right"
hspace="5"
vspace="5"
border="1"
width="150"
height="200"
alt="Caption">
</a>
Enjoy!