Re: Form not working in Netscape

Another case of 'broken' netscape I'm afraid!

The HTML spec states quite clearly that if a browser comes across an
attribute (or an element) it does not understand it should ignore it!

Unfortunately netscape does not do this.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Evans <Chucke(at)captura.com>
To: 'HWG Techniques' <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:08 PM
Subject: RE: Form not working in Netscape


> Murphy's Law of HWG Lists: Post a question, figure out the answer yourself
> in the next ten minutes.
>
> Upate:
>
> Netscape did not like the onSubmit="self.close();" event, so I removed it.
> Next, I had the backend ASP script print a nice little "Thank You" page in
> the small window (after sending the mail) with a Close Window button.
>
> Works fine. Thanks for listening!
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Chuck Evans
> Web Marketing Manager
> Captura Software, Inc.
> (425) 424-1155
> chucke(at)captura.com
> www.captura.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Evans
> > S
> > I've got a simple "Poll" type popup window that asks "Did you like the
> > demo?". The user clicks Yes, No, or No Opinion, and when they click
> > submit, the form data is sent to an ASP file for processing (it just
gets
> > mailed back to me) and the little window closes. It works fine in
Internet
> > Explorer 5, but doesn't work in Netscape Navigator 4.7.
> >
> > Since I have other forms on my site that mail just fine in NN, I'm
> > guessing the onSubmit statement in my form tag might be the culprit.

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