<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

function launchAbout() {
  about = window.open("about.html", "about", "height=75,width=250");
  return false;
}

// -->
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="about.html" onClick="return launchAbout()">About</A>

You can close the new window by clicking anywhere inside it. We use the following script in the HEAD portion of the about.html document:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

function closeWin() {
  window.close();
}

if (window.Event) document.captureEvents(Event.ONCLICK);
document.onclick = closeWin;

// -->
</SCRIPT>

For more information about events, refer to Column 9, The Navigator Event Model, Column 10, The Internet Explorer Event Model, and Column 11, The Cross-Browser Event Model. For a similar keyboard implementation, see Hot Keys (November 24, 1999). For a live demo, go to Tutorial 1.

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