There was a discussion a while back about "bad MIME type" files that would simply download a bunch of weird looking characters into the browser window; and I remember starting out expressing the "they've got to do it right" group opinion.

After thinking about it more, I came to the conclusion that I was absolutely right, but very wrong. "They" were not going to change and I (we) was (were) the worse for wear. So better detection was patched into Camino. Absolutely a sad state of affairs, but now we don't have nearly as much of a hassle as we did have.

It has been, and always will be, an issue that the web is infused with a lot of crappy code; especially javascript. If you develop a browser and only point the finger, guess what? Your users lose functionality. And what's the point of spending time creating a browser if most folks get "driven" to use something else that simply works better.

Frankly, I fervently hope that Pink and the guys who write Camino's code take pride in their oh so clever ways of working around others crappy code.

At 11:56 AM -0500 2/8/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly scribed:

This is because the javascript code behind the select menu you've
pointed to is totally broken. I have no idea what Golive is doing here,
but this is some of the JS that forms the jump menu that you pointed
to:

<csobj w="158" h="23" t="URLPopup" data="{ 0 = { label = &quot;Tequila
Reposado&quot;; selected = &quot;YES&quot;; }; 1 = { label = &quot;1921
Reposado&quot;; url = &quot;retour/1921rep.html&quot;; }; 2 = { label =
&quot;1921 Reserva Especial&quot;; url =
&quot;retour/1921res.html&quot;; }; 3 = { label = &quot;Aguila&quot;;
url = &quot;retour/aguila.html&quot;; }; 4

First of all, there's no such tag in the HTML spec as "csobj" - it's
proprietary to Golive. Second of all, if you're creating a jump menu
all you need is an onchange action in the form instead of the spaghetti
code that Golive spits out.

Do a google for "javascript jump menu" and you'll find scads of
examples. I hate to say it, but your problem is one of the many gotchas
you can encounter when you let a piece of software do your coding for
you.

Short answer: This isn't Camino's fault.

Neil


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