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Re: lynx-dev Java script support.
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brian j pardy |
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Re: lynx-dev Java script support. |
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Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:25:57 -0400 |
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999, Heather Stern wrote:
> brian j pardy wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999, Heather Stern wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> I think these features are -
> >> * mouseovers
> >> - some sites don't bother with ALT, but they do have
> >> a good mouseover status line
> >
> > How about, in lieu of Javascript (not saying never Javascript, but in
> > the indefinite time until we have it), something to just fake an ALT
> > tag for a mouseover, if there is no ALT tag?
> >
> > (If this is what you were saying, then I agree it'd be a good idea.)
> >
> > Shouldn't be too difficult to do, and just as easy to rip out upon
> > getting real javascript.
>
> Yes, this would be a good thing.
>
> I was sort of vaguely thinking, if we had the "lynx can do a limited
> number or type of pseudo-graphical things" stub, and something to spot
> that the HTML/js author is trying to do such a thing, we could fake it.
I don't know anything about js -- is the syntax for a mouseover pretty
much just something in the <IMG> tag somewhere? If it's something
like that, can try to find the 'mouseover=' text and splice out what's
in quotes after it (dealing with backslashed quotes, etc).
> To be "real" mouseover (?!) for the scenario I described, lemme see, I'd
> imagine: The image doens't display (of course) and there's no ALT so
> assuming you have the feature on, we show the graphic's filename. When
> it become hot, we'd honor the mouseover and redraw the page? I don't
> think so. More likely, "fake javascript" would steal yet another screen
> line for its status,
As an easier (and less demanding on screen realestate, and in keeping
with how annoying mouseover truly IS (heh)), how about if a mouseover
just did a temporary message over the existing status line, using the
facilities we currently have? Could do something like have it write
with the same precedence as informational messages (JSSECS=0 ? Ouch.)
or something.
Didn't someone recently add a history mechanism for statusline
messages? If the fake-js is displayed on screen for a configurable
amount of time, and recallable, I think that'd be a nice way to do it
without eating up another line of screen.
> and might be initially stubbed to show what it is
> guessing rather than try to actually do anything new with js code. That
> way at least we avoid what really annoys many Big Two users, that it's
> great having the status bar say something, but the actual status, which
> you might have liked to know, was overwritten in the process.
I know it annoys me whenever I'm unlucky enough to use one of those
Other Browsers.
> Hope that helps - I'm not much of a C hack these days...
Ideas always help.
--
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am prepared to say `ouch!' as loud as anyone."
-- Ronald Reagan
- lynx-dev Java script support., Igor B. Poretsky, 1999/06/25
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., Kim DeVaughn, 1999/06/25
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., David Woolley, 1999/06/27
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., Larry W. Virden, 1999/06/27
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., Rob Partington, 1999/06/27
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., Heather Stern, 1999/06/29
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., brian j pardy, 1999/06/29
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., Heather Stern, 1999/06/29
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support.,
brian j pardy <=
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., Heather Stern, 1999/06/29
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., brian j pardy, 1999/06/29
- Re: lynx-dev Java script support., David Woolley, 1999/06/28