203634 - window.open does not open modal window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 197351

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[C Buenger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

up to Mozilla 1.2.1 the follwing javascript-line openen a completely modal window:
window.open("...", "...", "modal=yes, ...")

since Mozilla 1.3 this window is only on top of other windows, but the
underlying windows can still be clicked. the window is not really modal anymore.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open blank html-page
2. add "<script> window.open("http://www.mozilla.org", "hwnd1",
"toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,
width: 200px, height: 200px, modal=yes"); </script>"
3. open in mozilla 1.2.1 and 1.3

Actual Results:  
underlying window still gets mouse and keyboard-input

Expected Results:  
undelying window should be locked until modal window is closed

Mozilla 1.2.1 worked correctly

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197351 ***

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate.

[e-mail]: thank you for this report. Please see
bug 197351 for details on this issue -