Re: Form not working in Netscape

by "Rossi Designs" <webmaster(at)rossidesigns.net>

Date:	Thu, 11 May 2000 20:13:14 -0400
To:	"Frank Boumphrey" <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>, "Chuck Evans" <Chucke(at)captura.com>, "'HWG Techniques'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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try
<body onunload="self.close">

inside the small window

and put target=_top" inside your form tag

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----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
To: Chuck Evans <Chucke(at)captura.com>; 'HWG Techniques'
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 2:45 PM
Subject: 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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