Well to be fair you can call it from either as it's a method of the window 
object....
Joe


>From: Bruce Allen <BAllen@e...>
>Reply-To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>Subject: [javascript] RE: Modal dialog
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:54:44 -0700
>
>Nope, you call it from JavaScript;
>
>but it only works for IE (not NetScape).
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Johnson, Israel [mailto:IJohnson@R...]
>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 5:02 AM
>To: javascript
>Subject: [javascript] RE: Modal dialog
>
>
>I think this only works w/ VBscript
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gbrown@c... [mailto:gbrown@c...]
>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 5:25 AM
>To: javascript
>Subject: [javascript] Modal dialog
>
>
>Hi
>
>Has anyone come across a method to create a modal popup. What I'm trying
>to mimic is a dialog window which has to be filled in before allowing the
>calling page to continue. I've tried setting the popups onblur to set the
>focus back to itself but this doesn't work.
>
>Regards
>Graham
>
>