[Javascript] Determining when a person leaves your domain

[javascript at mattbarton.org (Matt Barton)]

That won't solve the problem Jessica is having with the browser 
navigation buttons though.

A visitor would still see the confirm dialog when hitting the 'back' 
button on the browser, since there's no way to tie an event to the 
browser button which sets the value of the flag accordingly.

Matt


Allard Schripsema wrote:
> You might try this (just an idea):
> 
> You must have a frame around your site.
> Every link, menuItem etc in the site will set a boolean in the top of the
> frame to true
> Every onload of the page will reset the boolean to false
> Every unload of the page will check if this boolean is true or false and act
> accordingly
> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> Allard Schripsema
> www.VisualDigital.com.br
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:javascript-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jessica Mays
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:07 AM
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: RE: [Javascript] Determining when a person leaves your domain
> 
> 
> Again I want to stress that I do not want to annoy people, and this
> action would happen on one page only. And if they have JavaScript
> disabled they just don't get the survey - I can accept that.
> 
> But this is for an abandonment survey and I don't want them to be able
> to take it before they "really" decided to abandon - there could be
> offers associated and I can't have them coming up too soon.
> 
> So in JavaScript can I tell if they are using the back button or
> refreshing the screen (perhaps not a full tracking if they are staying
> on the site or not)? (again keeping the annoyance level to a minimum)
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> Jessica Mays
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:javascript-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Barton
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:35 AM
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Determining when a person leaves your domain
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think there's probably some milage in considering Mike's suggestion to
> "let people choose [the survey link] voluntarily through an easily
> visible link".
> 
> I can't personally think of an all-encompassing JavaScript solution to
> your goal, but even if one existed (which I doubt), it would be
> worthless for any visitor to your site who has JavaScript disabled (and
> there are plenty of those out there).  Such visitors wouldn't know about
> your survey unless there was a clear link to it.
> 
> FWIW
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> Jessica Mays wrote:
> 
>>Annoyance is one of the reasons I want to make this come up as little
> 
> as possible.
> 
>>And this is for a survey so the confirm box just asks if you would
> 
> like to survey or not and if no you go on your merry way and if you say
> yes you are sent to the survey.   This is an simple opt-in, and I am
> trying to keep annoyance to the lowest level possible.
> 
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