- From: Jungshik Shin <jshin@pantheon.yale.edu>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:32:47 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Hello, I've been thinking about how to make pages with lots of hrefs to 'javascript:......' accesible via browsers not supporting Java script (such as Lynx). At first <noscript> appeared to solve the problem. I tried the following with Lynx 2.8.x <script language="javascript"> function _win( url) { window.open( url, 'PreviewWin', 'width=700,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars+=yes,status=1'); } </script> Click the following button <a href='javascript:_win("link1.html")'> <img src="button.gif" alt="button"></a> <noscript><a href="link1.html"><img src="button.gif" alt="button"></a> </noscript> A problem with this is that Lynx displays *both* links and it's natural that it should do because there's no way for Lynx to figure out the first link should be ignored. I thought that it'd be nice if there's a kind of alt-attribute equivalent for <a>. That is, something like the following would be nice: <a href="javascript:_win('link1.html',abc, def)" althref="link1.html"> Link1</a> Therefore,I searched for HTML 3 and HTML 4 specs if some sort of alt tag is allowed as an attribute for <a>. It turned out not. Then, I searched for www-html archive if anybody has suggested it. I hit upon a suggestion made in January 1998, but its purpose is different than mine. It was suggested to address the problem of inaccessible (due to URL changes and other reasons) pages and slow connections. My proposal is to support text-mode browsers (and other browsers not supporting some of features available in graphic browsers) without removing those features for users of browsers supporting them (e.g. java script) My search of www-html was not so extensive and this may have been discussed already, in which case I apologize for duplication and I would like you to point me to where I could find the previous proposal. Thank you for your kind consideration of my proposal, Jungshik Shin
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