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Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:39:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> Well, I'm about at wit's end here on this one, although possibly I may have
> found a workaround.
>
> Anyway, tinkering with returning different values didn't help any on my test
> system (Win98 + MSIE5 under Virtual PC). However, I think I may have found a
> workaround which avoids the MIME issue altogether: it embeds the launch code
> into a JavaScript section in the HTML page using <SCRIPT>, and then during the
> onSubmit event of the form, it checks the selection and does its stuff based
> on that.
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> Anyway, to make a long story short, for MSIE users, here's a page to try out!
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> http://www.lugnet.com/quickset/testsearch.html
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> The upshot of this is that if it works, it works on both MSIE and NN without
> any special browser-detection kludgery of any kind, plus it probably pulls up
> the little launched window a split-second quicker on both browsers.
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> --Todd
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> p.s. BTW, if this works, then I can have the form point to an error page for
> the "Popup" selection when someone has JavaScript disabled. That way they'd
> see an explanation (with helpful suggestions) rather than an "unrecognized
> MIME type" dialog box.
Todd,
I tried it and it fixed my problem.
Thanks,
Steve
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