Why is Window.open()'s return type void ?
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Doing something like this is perfectly permissible in javascript:
var newWindow = window.open(...)
However, this does not work in the senario of GWT (I am using 1.5 I dont know about later versions),
Window window = Window.open("", "", "");
Throws me a compile time error that the open is a method with a return type as void.
Why should it be void ? What if i want to close my popup from the main Window ? how do I get its handle ?
I will have to resort to native javascript no doubt but i was just curious so as to why this is so...
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