{Written before reading Neil's acknowledgement of a solution sent by Glenn}
Tips like editing the document source ought to be incorporated into the
Arachne-User's Survival Pack, particularly as the providers of the pages
we all go to now and then have no "history", no comprehension that
anybody's using other than a post-Version4 Big-2 browser.
Neil, here's a copy&paste from some 'orrible pop-up window. Note
that there are <!-- and --> tags immediately after and before the
<script> and </script> tags. These tags allow for comments to be
hidden from the visitor but in this instance allow browsers that don't
care for JavaScript to ignore the scripting, whereas the Java-aware
browser will be on the lookout for the comment tag after it's seen the
<script> tag. I assume that the comment tags have been left out
of the page you visit by someone of the type described in Para 1.
You should send in feedback though, despite giving the impression
that user-contact is welcomed, most is ignored.
All the best,
Jake
Here's that JS example:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- {There's that all-important comment tag}
function TripodShowPopup()
{
// open the popup window. stick a timestamp to foil caching. Some versions of
Netscape do not automatically load
// the page specified by the URL paramter of wondow.open(). As such, we create
the
window empty, then explicitly load
// the page with the location object
var now = new Date();
var popupURL =
"/adm/popup/roadmap.shtml?"+"member_name=stanislavs&path=games&client_ip=195.92.19
8.84&ts=949360014&ad_type=POPUP&id=924464591bf036dd4e7fcb112b4ac71c";
var popupName = "TripodPopup";
var popup = window.open("",
popupName,'toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0
,width=593,height=125');
popup.location = popupURL;
}
TripodShowPopup();
// --> {there's the closing comment tag}
</script>
At 30/01/00 14:06:00, Neil Parks wrote:
>Using Arachne 1.60 beta 1, I want to read my email on mailandnews.com .
>
>I go to the home page, enter my user name and password, and press the
>login button. Arachne fetches the page containing the index of new msgs,
>but displays only a blank screen.
>
>I press F4 to bring up the editor, and find in the HEAD area there are a
>few lines containing Java script. I delete those lines, and press the
>Save and View button. The page then displays perfectly.
>
>Same again when I want to read an individual msg. Blank screen, edit out
>short Java script (always within the HEAD area), and then page appears and
>looks good.
>
>Until such time as Arachne supports Javascript, should it not simply
>ignore anything from <script> to </script> ? Why should the presence of
>a script in the header prevent display of an otherwise Arachne-friendly
>page?
>
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