- From: Brian Kelly <lisbk@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:54:43 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
(Sorry about the previous message - sent unintentionally when cutting and pasting text). > At 07:31 PM 6/1/99 +0100, Brian Kelly wrote: > > > >Good example (I think) can be found at: > > > >http://www.keele.ac.uk/foo.html > >http://www.dmu.ac.uk/foo.html > >http://www.brookes.ac.uk/foo.html > > > >Any comments on these? > > > > Keele and Brookes exceed requirements by far. > > deMontfort is not in the same league. The "home" reference from that > recovery page is the obscure "DMU" acronym which does not really cut it for > this situation. Then there is that gratuitous javascript link... > > Al Hi Al Thanks for the comments. I included the DMU (De Montford University!) example as an illustration of use of a "gratuitous javascript link" (which performs a "Back to previous page" function). I agree that if Javascript is switched off or not available this link would not work, and thus undesirable. However the link could be created dynamically using Javascript, and thus only visible if JavaScript is available. I thought it might be desirable to have a Back link *within* the page (as opposed to part of the browser) - if, for example, the browser navigational options are disabled, or to provide additional help for a naive user. The 404 error message could be a good place to implement this as you often want to go back. Any thoughts on this - I've no experience on how browsers other than IE, NS, Opera, Lynx, Mosaic and Viola implement the Back button. Thanks Brian ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Homepage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly.html Phone: 01225 323943 FAX: 01225 826838
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