Re: lynx-dev Re: two Forms queries

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Philip Webb wrote:

> 000625 Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> >> (1) there is a link of  type="button"  with an  onclick= :
> >> is it possible for the site manager to provide an  ALT  for this?
> >> he denies it can be done within HTML: can anyone offer advice?
> >> i can dodge round it by extracting the URL from the source,
> >> but it would be nice to be able to tell him how to make it Lynx-friendly.
> > The following should work:
> > 
> > <FORM ACTION="<url>" METHOD="GET"><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" 
> > VALUE="<caption>"></FORM>
> 
> thanx: i'll try it out on the site developer next week;
> he should be able to create text-only versions of his documents quite easily.

He could aadditionally embed such fallbacks in <NOSCRIPT>...</NOSCRIPT>.
That should make them invisible to browsers with scripting.

I haven't checked in which places <NOSCRIPT> is legal, or whether it actually
makes form controls invisible on graphical browsers.

  Klaus


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