Re[2]: LYNX-DEV Problems with www.citizen.org choice-list

[Michael Seven]

Hello Philip,

Monday, 16 March 98, you wrote:

PW> 980316 Scott McGee wrote: 
>> 980316 David Combs writes:
>> > I cannot get this to work:  go to www.citizen.org (ralph nader site),
>> > cursor down to black fill-in to left of "[BUTTON]", and hit return.
>> > You will get a choice list; cursor up to say, MAI (or any other item).
>> > Hit return (or L) -- it just substitutes that chosen item
>> > for what was there before, into the black fill-in area.
>> > If I now hit return to eg go to that chosen place,
>> > I just get the choose-list again.
>> The problem you are having is due to a poorly programmed web page. 
>> They are using a javascript to do navigation, and haven't bothered
>> to make it usable to browsers without javascript support. In fact,
>> the code may not work WITH javascript but without mouse events.
>> If I were you, I'd complain to them about it.
>> Seems that a consumer-protection site should be able to help you
>> get access problems due to browser discriniation fixed!
 
PW> hear hear!  St Ralph is getting old & his acolytes aren't obeying his Rule.

PW> there appear to be a number of things wrong, even to me:
PW> (1) (probably the real problem for DC)  <input ...  has no closing  >
PW>     (i don't mean  </input> , which is illegal: i mean simply  > ):
PW>     this is a very careless typo;
PW> (2)  onclick="change(this.form)"  is presumably Java:
PW>     Lynx should recognise  onclick , but may not recognise the action;
PW> (3)  <form ... >  has an incorrect attribute  name ,
PW>     but lacks attributes  action  &  method .
PW> i believe (1) is the problem:
PW> Lynx doesn't find an action before  </form>  appears.
PW> here are the relevant lines, in case anyone else can add some wisdom:

PW>     <form name="pulldown">
PW>       <div align="right"><p><font size="2"><select name="page" size="1">
PW>         <option selected value="www.citizen.org/autosafe.htm">Auto 
Safety</option>
PW>        -- snip --

PW>       </select><input type="button" value="Go there" 
onclick="change(this.form)" </p></font></p></div></form>

PW> Lynx simply renders  [Option___] [BUTTON]  (right justified).
             
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 Michael                            mailto:address@hidden