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Just a quick "heads up" on a slight interface addition --
We need to add a clickable "Search" button next to the newsgroup search boxes
at the top of most pages, due to a forms bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer
(and possibly other Netscape clones).
The problem is that the 'Enter' key works correctly in MSIE pages containing
a single, simple edit-box HTML form, but not in pages containing multiple HTML
forms, even if those forms are all simply edit boxes. Thus, MSIE actually
sometimes requires an HTML form to have an actual Submit button.
Currently, only a very small number of pages on the site have more than one
HTML form, but this won't always be the case -- especially with some of the
upcoming new features which will require HTML forms.
If your browser of choice is Netscape Navigator, you won't notice any change
in behavior -- you can still type searches and hit 'Enter' to activate them.
If your browser of choice is Microsoft Internet Explorer, then you won't
probably notice any change in behavior either, except on pages which contain
more than one HTML form. In those cases, you'll have to click the form's
Submit button manually with the mouse or with Tab-Enter. Please direct any
complaints regarding this to your browser vendor.
--Todd & Suz
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| (...) What I don't understand from your above is why MSIE has no problems with eBay's pages which have different querries executed depending on where you are when you hit enter (but Netscape Navigator at work requires me to hit the submit button). (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Have you added it yet? I didn't see a change. I just checked my two browsers: Netscape 4.7 works fine, but MSIE doesn't show a set search form on the main page. Instead of using a button, have you considered using an image as a submit button, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FrJ8B3.wu@lugnet.com... (...) containing (...) HTML (...) I understand your frustration, but this isn't strictly true. You can attach a onkeypress event to the search boxes in IE4 and later (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Search button
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| (...) Now just a quick "heads up" on a slight interface subtraction -- (...) This was based on outdated information. Although the LUGNET server still has to take into account bugs like this in old versions of MSIE, recent versions do not appear to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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