[WEB4LIB] Needing your big brains

[Johnson Darryl]

There are also a number of situations where the "Stop" button seems to have
no effect. It might be worthwhile to document a few of them so your students
don't get the (wrong) idea that the "Stop" button with halt everything dead
in its tracks.

I am thinking of things like: some scripts seem to keep running even after
the Stop button, pop-up windows (various pornographic sites are famous for
this sort of thing), etc.

I also recall having problems with Refreshing a page after using the Stop
button. The 'refreshed' page was truncated at the same point as the original
interrupted version, and I had to go back to a previous page and then
forward again to get the full page to appear. Some kind of cache issue, it
would seem, and perhaps more an IE issue than a Netscape issue....

HTH,
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    Darryl Johnson                    Darryl.Johnson at nlc-bnc.ca
    National Library of Canada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Garwood [mailto:sgarwood at camden.lib.nj.us]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:54 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Needing your big brains
> 
> 
> Ok, I've got a tricky one for you all.
> 
> I teach a basic Internet class
> http://reference.camden.lib.nj.us/classes/garwood/navigating 
> using Netscape
> (sometimes IE) and review all the buttons on the toolbar 
> (Back, Forward,
> Home, etc.) during the class. I've been trying to figure out 
> a way to show
> how Stop works. Basically, what I've been thinking is that I 
> would like to
> make a link on a page that when clicked on takes "forever" to 
> connect to
> anything, thereby allowing me to show people that the Stop 
> button will stop
> the "transaction" between the two computers.
> 
> Anyone know a way of doing this? Is there a better solution 
> I'm not thinking
> of?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Steve
> 
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