Re: AKICIF: Multiscreen CGI program question

In article <neild-usenet4-6E32EE.22212318112005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Damien Neil <neild-usenet4@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> winston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing)
> wrote:
>> I suspect this is impossible without resorting to one of the schemes
>> mentioned
>> above. But if I'm wrong - if there's some easy way to do interwindow
>> communication in Javascript, etc - I'd like to know about it.
>
>It is possible to do interwindow communication in Javascript. The
>following page contains an example of one way to go about it:
> http://www.rgagnon.com/jsdetails/js-0066.html
>
>Another option is to use a lot of DHTML to do things in a single window,
>which can be a lot of fun to implement. For example:
> http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1
>
>Note that either of these will suffer from the problem that the user
>loses all their state if they close their browser window, crash, etc.
>If users are going to be entering a lot of names, you probably want to
>go with a session-based approach.
>
>In addition, both the above approaches will make Keith Lynch sad.

(This is actually currently intended to be used by a department of four
people who are all inside the firewall and who can be relied upon to have
up-to-date graphical browsers, so Keith will never get to see it.)

Thanks very much for the pointer to how do to it and the advice not to do
it that way.

Best,

-- Alan

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