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Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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lugnet.admin.database
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Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:13:43 GMT
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> QuickSet seems like a nifty thing. I have one big problem with it,
> unfortunately. This is with IE5. Once launched, the QuickSet window becomes
> the target window for any URL that gets launched from a non-browser
> application.
> For example, if I open QuickSet while reading LUGNET messages, and then I
> double-click a URL from my newsreader, the QuickSet window is used to display
> the webpage. Since the QuickSet window is usually reduced-function (ie, no
> toolbar, menu, etc.), I can't do much to return to Quickset or anything else
> except browse the website (via hyperlinks on the page) and then close the
> window.
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> One smaller navigation thing, having to do with looking up a range of sets. I
> enter my query in the QuickSet window. A new window is displayed, with
> thumbnails of all the matching sets. If I click one of the thumbnails, an
> enlarged version of that thumbnail is displayed in the same window, replacing
> the list of sets. I can't get back to the list, because I don't have any
> navigation aids. So if I want to examine another match, I have to
> requery. It
> would be nice if the enlarged view showed up in a new window, at least when
> there is a range of matching sets. That way, I could examine several of the
> matches more closely.
what it probably is, I don't thin IE honors the "_blank" name for new
windows. Unlike NN, which opens a new window every time the target is
_blank, IE must not do that. So every time an app tries to open a new
window, IE thinks it means the same one... Not sure what you can do about
that, except stop using IE...
Dan
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| If you find that you are spending a lot of time looking up sets by name or number -- fiddling with URLs, bookmarks, search boxes, etc. -- then here's a little (and I mean little!) utility which might help save you time. It's tentatively called (...) (27 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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