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I have a chat in a popup browser window. This chat page (ASP) checks for new messages every 10 seconds.
I would like to bring this popup window to front when there is a new message. I tried with “window.focus()”, but this work only in few version of IE.
Are there other options to achieve my goal?
Don’t steal the focus.
And no, it will work only in some IEs, as you said. Quoting Mozilla’s developer network,
This is valid for all modern browsers, I guess.
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