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Re[2]: LYNX-DEV Problems with www.citizen.org choice-list
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Michael Seven |
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Re[2]: LYNX-DEV Problems with www.citizen.org choice-list |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:57:35 -0800 |
Hello Philip,
Monday, 16 March 98, you wrote:
PW> 980316 Scott McGee wrote:
>> 980316 David Combs writes:
>> > I cannot get this to work: go to www.citizen.org (ralph nader site),
>> > cursor down to black fill-in to left of "[BUTTON]", and hit return.
>> > You will get a choice list; cursor up to say, MAI (or any other item).
>> > Hit return (or L) -- it just substitutes that chosen item
>> > for what was there before, into the black fill-in area.
>> > If I now hit return to eg go to that chosen place,
>> > I just get the choose-list again.
>> The problem you are having is due to a poorly programmed web page.
>> They are using a javascript to do navigation, and haven't bothered
>> to make it usable to browsers without javascript support. In fact,
>> the code may not work WITH javascript but without mouse events.
>> If I were you, I'd complain to them about it.
>> Seems that a consumer-protection site should be able to help you
>> get access problems due to browser discriniation fixed!
PW> hear hear! St Ralph is getting old & his acolytes aren't obeying his Rule.
PW> there appear to be a number of things wrong, even to me:
PW> (1) (probably the real problem for DC) <input ... has no closing >
PW> (i don't mean </input> , which is illegal: i mean simply > ):
PW> this is a very careless typo;
PW> (2) onclick="change(this.form)" is presumably Java:
PW> Lynx should recognise onclick , but may not recognise the action;
PW> (3) <form ... > has an incorrect attribute name ,
PW> but lacks attributes action & method .
PW> i believe (1) is the problem:
PW> Lynx doesn't find an action before </form> appears.
PW> here are the relevant lines, in case anyone else can add some wisdom:
PW> <form name="pulldown">
PW> <div align="right"><p><font size="2"><select name="page" size="1">
PW> <option selected value="www.citizen.org/autosafe.htm">Auto
Safety</option>
PW> -- snip --
PW> </select><input type="button" value="Go there"
onclick="change(this.form)" </p></font></p></div></form>
PW> Lynx simply renders [Option___] [BUTTON] (right justified).
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Michael mailto:address@hidden