[wdvltalk] Re: Pop ups situations

2003-10-28 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Dominique, > So, I'm assuming that other people are using the > same kind of dumb popup guards which block every > new window. [...] Can I get some feedback as to > how some of you are handling this? The only truly safe way to avoid your popups being blocked is not to use popups :-) If you mu

[wdvltalk] Re: Pop ups situations

2003-10-28 Thread Bj
Re Dominique's problem, wanting to open pages in a new window but being blocked as if it were a popup.. I would add this to Jon's contribution - if you open your links in a new named window using JavaScript, your original window should then be able to check for the existence of the new window to s

[wdvltalk] Re: Pop ups situations

2003-10-28 Thread Adam Cork
Ok, I haven't really been following this thread, but mozilla's built in pop up blocker doesn't stop pop ups generated from a link, only *unrequested* pop ups, don't know about third party blockers though. I personally hate going to a site that starts throwing new windows at me, whether it's adv

[wdvltalk] RE: Pop ups situations

2003-10-28 Thread Trusz, Andrew
_target is deprecated in CSS2. Which I suppose is a not very subtle way of discouraging the use of popups. Similarly, the incorporation of event handlers like onmousover etc into the browser discourages the over use of javascript. Find a way to do it without js for accessibility and then you don't

[wdvltalk] RE: Pop ups situations

2003-10-28 Thread Erich D. Mansell
Dominique, I haven't seen this option discussed on the thread. Talk with the IT folks. Most pop-up products (homegrown or commercial) have some exception hot-key installed into the programming. If they don't, that should be easily configurable. If you are able to get the hot-key exception, post

[wdvltalk] Re: Pop ups situations

2003-10-28 Thread Dominique Clawson
Joseph wrote: >Dominique, >So the options narrow considerably; I take it frames are now frowned on as being useful to achieve both the original window (in part at least) and changing information. Exactly, I used to have a frame buster for my home page, but now, our university is developing a

[wdvltalk] Help! Need to stop page from cached in browser

2003-10-28 Thread mdavis
I have a web page that is updated from time to time. I have had complaints from some of my users that they were seeing old information. It turned out to be a browser cache problem. How can I make sure that a web page is abosolutly, positively NOT cached? Any differences for IE/Netscape, etc. TIA

[wdvltalk] OT Found!! Finally discovered the first colored animated website!

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Laurence
For those that have a minute or two and are adventurous. Out of curiosity I have been looking for the oldest colored animated website still online. After many months of searching...I do believe I found it. http://rosecity.net/rush/cartoons/cartoon21.html can you top this? • The WDVL D

[wdvltalk] Re: Help! Need to stop page from cached in browser

2003-10-28 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 20:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a web page that is updated from time to time. I have had complaints > from some of my users that they were seeing old information. It turned out > to be a browser cache problem. > > How can I make sure that a web page is abosolutly, po

[wdvltalk] RE: Help! Need to stop page from cached in browser

2003-10-28 Thread Steven Olson
> Any differences for IE/Netscape, etc. It seems that there are some bug and tricks involved: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/nocache.html /steven From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I make sure that a web page is abosolutly, positively NOT cached? TIA • The WDVL Discussion List from WD

[wdvltalk] RE: Help! Need to stop page from cached in browser

2003-10-28 Thread michael ensor
In addition to Steven's comments you may this useful, although it is a while since I looked at this: Pragma no-cache meta tags are ignored by all browsers and Pragma no-cache as a header is ignored by all server caching UNLESS you use https. It is an https control only. IE5+ browsers (and NS6+ ?)

[wdvltalk] google anomaly

2003-10-28 Thread jensevern
Does anyone know a bit about how Google works? If you do a search on "renal australia", you get a listing on page 2 called "Amgen Australia/RSA Renal Travel & Research Grants". This is our site. So far so good. But if you click that link, it goes to a different page on the same site, the applicatio

[wdvltalk] Re: google anomaly

2003-10-28 Thread michael ensor
well this, according to my search is a page of : www.renalsociety.org/ this has been posted before I think but have a read: http://www.google.ca/webmasters/guidelines.html if you are the renal society web developer change your meta tags/ page title/headings...? if not a quick phone call to the so

[wdvltalk] Re: google anomaly #2

2003-10-28 Thread michael ensor
had a look at the site: the Amgen link goes a page with Amgen in the title BUT search engines will not make sense of pages that are so heavily loaded with javascript! nor can they read images (NB no alt tags either) at the least andshould be added and should be reasonably descriptive, the ti