On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:44:55 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:29:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I suppose it would be a relatively simple project for someone to write an
>> APM that would perform the function of automatically commenting out the
>> Java Script. Then we would be spared from the hassle of having to access
>> the Arachne editor to perform manual editing.
> Not a bad idea.
> But, consider this....
<snip>
Glenn:
Your considerations for a JS filter involve checking the page for scripting
errors with regard to comment lines prior to having Arachne attempting to
load the page. This would work, but with the TSR and all the pre-processing
involved, this would be a hog for memory and it would slow down considerably
the loading of any web-page.
Of course I know you are very much aware of the problems this would create,
and therefore you and I and everyone else would be very much opposed to such
an approach because this kind of remedy will cause more suffering than the
affliction itself.
What I had in mind was a hot-key we could hit whenever a blank page is
displayed. This would invoke an APM, or some other kind of program, that
would automagically check the page for comment-line errors, make corrections
as needed, and then return control to the browser to display the page. This
approach has the disadvantage of permitting a blank page to be displayed
initially whenever Arachne encounters comment-line errors. This is a
problem we already suffer with anyway. It has the advantage of providing
for a very quick fix without having to resort to manual editing.
Sam Heywood
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