Dick,
If we can be reasonably sure the page was viewed, then thats good enough. If
I can go back to my manager and say that this ain't 100% foolproof but it's
as good as your gonna get, then he has no choice but to fly with it.
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 12:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Slightly OT - Detecting that a page has completed.
Technically speaking, the onLoad is not supposed to fire until the
entire page has been loaded...
Some IE browsers (especially on the Mac) violate this, tho.
You could use a script at the end of the page, a meta tag refresh,
onUnload,, a button...
But, what if they have the browser page hidden or not currently displayed...
...lots of excuses to bail on you:
the text was too small
that portion of the pag was off the screen
I got interrupted and vever got back to it
Sounds like a case of "The dog ate my roster". You are not going to
solve this with a program or a script... a company policy and some
enforced compliance is required.
Dick
At 11:01 AM +0100 8/22/00, Michael O Reilly wrote:
>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
>TransAer
>
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