Re: How to open page in inline window

Vivisimo's JavaScript is much more straightforward and cleaner, I think.
They strictly use IFRAMES with their method and don't depend on CSS to
"fool" the user into believing the "[preview]" line is a hyperlink like the
other site did.  The other site was using CSS to generate a "hand" cursor
icon to fool the user, then they used JavaScript to recognize the
faux-hyperlink line as a string, that in turn intiated a series of functions
to either activate or deactivate the preview pane.

While Vivisimo's uses only IFRAMES (and therefore doesn't work on Netscape
4.x) the other site seems to try not only IFRAMEs but also an <object>
(which is why some of you saw an ActiveX error).  Even with that
combination, the other site still doesn't seem to achieve its goal in some
browsers.  It's curious why they try to do BOTH an object and IFRAMES...I
thought if your browser supported ActiveX objects (like IE) that it
typically also supports IFRAMES....oh well.

My vote is for Vivisimo's version! :)

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis K" <djkeib01(at)homer.louisville.edu>
To: "HWG list" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: RE: How to open page in inline window


>
> One of my favorite search tools, http://vivisimo.com/, uses this technique
> quite nicely when it returns results. They use a browser detect javascript
> to either display or hide a link to "Preview" the inline frame. If the
> browser doesn't support that tag, they still get links to either open the
> search result page in the parent frame or in a new window. The site, imo,
is
> very user friendly and uses the inline frames technique to enhance a good
> layout.
>
> --
> Dennis K
>

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