Bug 16730 – Support the window.createPopup() method

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: DOM

[José Jeria]

It would be great if webkit could support the window.createPopup that exists in IE (since version 5.5).

The benefit of the popup object is that it can appear on top of other frames and outside the browser window. This makes it easier to create contextmenues etc. 

You can also make the popup appear x px relative to a HTML node, see:
http://207.46.199.254/en-us/library/ms536755(VS.85).aspx

Examples can be seen here:
http://207.46.199.254/en-us/library/ms533025(VS.85).aspx

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

My googling indicates that Firefox doesn't support this either.

[Yair Yogev]

correct links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533025(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536755(VS.85).aspx
http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_dom_window_popup

[Blake Sening]

This is also tracked as Chromium bug:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17394

[Ahmad Saleem]

window.createPopup() was Internet Explorer only and it was later removed from IE11 as well.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/dev-guides/bg182625(v=vs.85)

I think we are not planning to add old APIs etc., so I think we can mark this as "RESOLVED WONTFIX" (similar to Chrome bug in Comment 03)

[Ryosuke Niwa]

This is most certainly won't fix at this point.