The point of getting notification that a user has seen his/her roster page
is in case they decide to go AWOL after seeing they are rostered for a job
they may not wish to do. We can therefore say that we know you seen you were
rostered for job x and should have reported for duty. In this case, a button
the user voluntarily clicks, won't work.
Also a <BODY onUnload=""> solution isn't really confirming that the whole
page loaded. I need to post some info back to the server near the end of the
page without the user knowing. If I set up a form with an action property
targetting a hidden frame, some hidden form fields and put some Javascript
into the end of the page which submits the form data , the data should go
back to the server? I'm wondering if anyone has done this sort of thing.
Regards
Michael O'Reilly
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 22 August 2000 10:15
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Slightly OT - Detecting that a page has completed.
Why not use an "I have read this" button that the user must click?
An alternative is an onUnload routine in the <BODY> tag... but, yhis
just means it was received, and that the user has moved on.
Dick
At 9:41 AM +0100 8/22/00, Michael O Reilly wrote:
>Hi all,
>I have been given a problem which I'm not sure is solvable.
>We are to publish staff rosters on the Web and want to know if staff have
>been notified of/looked at their roster.
>I have said that although we can detect that the user has requested a page,
>it's impossible to know if the whole page arrived at the browser (people
are
>connecting in from all over the world on some very dodgy telco systems so
>connection speeds can be assumed to be poor). Am I correct here.
>
>I know I could put a JS onload event into the <body> tag which submits some
>info back to the server. But can I put anything at the end of the page
which
>would do the same.
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