Prompting users for confimation when closing browser window

Hi All,
I would like to prompt the user with a popup-screen asking for confirmation that he wants to close the browser when hitting the browser-close ('X') button. Is this possible ?
If the user chose to cancel the browser window shoud remain open, with all content as it was... and of course if he chooses to continue the window should just close.
the WDA app is straight forward, and not running inside the portal.
Thanx in advance
-Tonni

Hi Tonni,
I thought I should add - the portal does implement a work protection mode that does allow you to prompt users if they navigate away from your page - and one of the best ways to implement that is through the FPM and its work protect mode interface.
However, that still doesn't help, I'm afraid, in the case where you're trying to stop the user closing the browser window...
I should also point out that some browsers do indeed produce an event which can be trapped on close of the window, and have been hugely exploited by website designers - to the extent that later/better versions no longer support it. Remember the web pages that when you closed spawned 3 more, and those 3 more etc. etc.
Cheers,
Chris
edit: also worth pointing out that the "Close" button provided within a portal session by the FPM is a form of navigation and can be trapped. Likewise any internal navigation button that perform the same sort of thing within your app.
Edited by: Chris Paine on Mar 29, 2010 3:08 PM

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