Q722 Is there any way I can share the window object amongst all of my webpages, so that the window gets created only once, and I can just call window.focus() to pop it up every time, no matter which page the user chooses it from?

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Q722 Is there any way I can share the window object amongst all of my webpages, so that the window gets created only once, and I can just call window.focus() to pop it up every time, no matter which page the user chooses it from?

Yes, place the JavaScript code in the parent frameset and invoke it from there, for example:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
handle = '';
function myOpen(url) {
    handle = window.open(url,....)
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

<FRAMESET>
...
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

And then in any page:

<SCRIPT>
parent.myOpen('http://www.irt.org');
</SCRIPT>

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