> This may actually be best achieved with a JavaScript solution so
> I apologise
> if some regard it as OT.
>
> We're deploying one of our large manuals to the web (which is currently
> distributed as a Win 3.1 help file - those were the days) as HTML. One of
> its features (the win help version) is that it has a history function and
> users can back track. I want to try an emulate this for the last 5 or so
> pages the user was on.
>
> I know you can do this by using a href and using history - 1,
> history -2 etc
> but rather than have a simple image or bit of static text with a
> link I want
> to actually try to produce a small list with the name of the page
> they were
> on, linked to that page (the link can use history -1 etc but I want to
> actually get the name of the page if I can). After all users
> won't remember
> what the page was 5 clicks ago but it will help them if they can see the
> name of the page. The history function in JavaScript doesn't appear to
> provide this info.
Seeing as the history object in JavaScript is an array, you can refer to any
of the entries in it - BUT, it calls them all by URL, it's only the browser
that calls them by title
The only way I can think of getting the titles is to run an (ugly) loop that
briefly opens another window for that URL, grabs the title, then closes that
window - this would mean loads of windows flicking into existance, then
closing immediately.
This would work, but it wouldn't be quick if the server connection was slow,
oh, and did I mention it would be ugly?
Philip Arnold
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
"Websites for the real world"
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