On 01/07/2010 12:47 AM, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 12:21 AM, Ed wrote:
>> But what I don't know how to produce is how to get from the first link
>> to the second link without clicking directly on the second link.
>> Clicking on the first link, and then clicking on subsequent links
>> (any one) produces a proper UI and message display.
>
> If you note the /ajax/, I think it's pretty clear that the intent is
> for the browser to invoke java script which downloads the contents as
> XML, extracts it with JavaScript to convert it into pretty DHTML
> probably using the DOM API.
>
> A user would not look at /ajax/ directly. Only the JavaScript on the
> page would pull open that .xml and unpack it as DHTML.
If you look at the HTML directly, it says:
<a onclick="javascript:toggleMessage(1); return false;"
href="ajax/%3c4DF6734D-0402-4C2C-8D15-D6FE14265B0E_at_mail.utexas.edu%3e">Subversion
in 2010</a>
The "href" is shown in the browser window, but HTML events normally run
the onclick= first, and the "; return false;" means that the event is
processed and will not normally be dropped down to the <a> anchor to
process the href. Therefore, the "href" is displayed on mouse over, but
not normally accessed by a JavaScript-enabled browser.
Maybe the original poster has JavaScript disabled.
Cheers,
mark
--
Mark Mielke<mark_at_mielke.cc>
Received on 2010-01-07 06:51:52 CET