Window.open not working in Internet Explorer [duplicate]

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I have a global detector detecting when someone clicks on an image inside of a <div> of class Gallery like below:

$('.Gallery a').click(function(eve开发者_如何学编程nt) {
        event.preventDefault();
        window.open ($(this).attr('href'),"Gallery Image","menubar=1,resizable=1,width=500,height=600");
    });

The event.preventDefault() is working, so when they click on the image nothing happens. However, in Internet Explorer no window opens. Any ideas why, or do you know a better way of doing this?

In Firefox / Chrome it works perfectly.

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You can't have spaces in the window name in IE, and in fact it only "works" in Firefox/Chrome by fluke: it's not compliant to try to use them.

Note that "name" is not the same as "title" or "caption"; the name should be some programmatic ID like "galleryWindow"; it's not a message that gets displayed to a user anywhere.