Re: Workstation Gateway (was Persistent CGI)

["Rob Dixon" <robertsdixon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walden


2009/1/8 Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > Do you know a way of reducing the amount of Javascript?
>
> You certainly could clean it up some w/something like jQuery or
> prototype, plus be more x-browser. I know I'd rather read
>
> $('popupText').innerHTML = msgt;
>
> than
>
> javascript:document.getElementById('popupText').innerHTML=msgt;
>
>
> Also, any reason you're not using ID= attributes in some cases? Why:
>
> document.getElementsByName('NAM64I')[0].value = num;
>
> instead of
>
> $('NAM64I').value = num;


These are obvious improvements for which I thank you.  My excuse is that I
knew nothing about JavaScript so purchased a book, worked out a solution
(not necessarily the best!) and implemented it and, with help from this
list, it worked.

> Also, don't forget, the keycodes are different between different
> browsers... been there.


I am aware of this but with WSG it was difficult to have more than one lot
of codes because of the limits of what I could do to modify it.  With
CGIDEV2, I should be able to cope with a variety of key codes.


> Finally, FONT tags? Ewwww.... CSS man!


I know you are absolutely correct, and when I have got to a reasonable
solution that appears to work, I will refine it.  None of the HTML or
Javascript is stored.  The font tags are put out by my code and changing
them will be simple.

Thanks for you help.

Rob

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