Does anybody know how the Hotmail email notification popup box work? Is this java? I like the way it pop up, delivers a message, then goes away. Totoally cool!
tedster
1:34 pm on Jan 11, 2002 (gmt 0)
It certainly can be done with JavaScript -- I'm not a Hotmail person so I can't say what they actually use.
I don't know enough Java to say if that could do it, too. Since IE6 doesn't automatically include Java support, I wouldn't try Java anyway.
ggrot
1:49 pm on Jan 11, 2002 (gmt 0)
I haven't seen this, but im guessing it is a popup window that comes up while you are in hotmail which alerts you to new messages? The popup window could very easily be done in javascript but I think it would be a rather ugly feat to try and have the javascript poll the server for data about whether or not there are new messages. Thus I would guess that particular aspect would be done in java.
meannate
5:56 pm on Jan 11, 2002 (gmt 0)
are you referring to the little window that pops up from MSN Messenger on the taskbar?
Newnewbie
3:06 pm on Jan 17, 2002 (gmt 0)
Yes!! Is that cool or what?
ggrot
4:26 pm on Jan 17, 2002 (gmt 0)
That would just be executable code, nothing done within a web browser that you could use for most sites.
