Re: lynx-dev JS onclick

[Natasha Live]

I guess we can only hope that the advent of the digital services (in the 
UK anyway), will lower the browsing specs required.

The internet browsers included in Sky/Cable/OnDigital digital services are
not up to the task of displaying flash and similar "high level" html. In fact
the new BUSH internet TV set (internet browser built into the actual tv) states
that quote "..it does NOT have the full range of capabilities that you would
 expect from an expensive PC. The system may not allow access to certain 
internet banking services and areas using complex graphics or developed in
'flash' programme language. It will not produce moving pictures or reproduce
sounds from the web sites.". Whilst this doesn't affect Lynx as such, i can't
think of anyother browser system that has similar specs to lynx as the one above
does. If this is the standard of TV browsers to come then we can expect the
specifications of the sites to drop to the level "the masses" will be using.
And i know now better way to represent the masses then tv :)

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:37:24AM -0700, Patrick Boylan wrote:
> In "Re: lynx-dev JS onclick"
> [31/Jul/2000 Mon 09:22:59]
> A. R. Vener wrote:
> 
> > What does javascript do with the index number? Is there an warray of
> > URL's somewhere that it uses the index to reference one of them?   Where is
> > the Javascript syntax documented?
> 
> Well, there are variables that let you define several alternate
> links from one input.
> 
> Here's a New Array() script, which looks a *lot* like a client-side
> image map to me.  Maybe it could be parsed in a similar way?
> 
> [CUT]
>
> of image map.  The presence of an onChange() function and a list
> of URLs, plus a form without an action, might be enough for Lynx
> to figure it out [given a *lot* of work, of course].
> 
> > Rudy
> > 
> > > PW> it really shouldn't be difficult to get Lynx to recognise `onclick',
> > > PW> extract the following URL & present it as a link marked `ONCLICK':
> > > > In many, if not most, of the cases I've seen, the URL is not
> > > > in the onclick parameter.  What is there is either an index number,
> > > > or only part of the relative URL; most commonly just an index number.
> > > 
> > > yes, that is true of the best public example i can offer.
> > > to focus discussion, how could Lynx handle the document at
> > >  http://www.gotransit.com/fare/fndfare.asp ,
> > > where getting a point-point bus fare is prevented by a  [BUTTON] ?
> > > the necessary URLs do seem to be present in the JS in the source,
> > > but not necessarily in an easy-to-predict place.
> > > anyone care to try the programming challenge?
> > > 
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