[WEB4LIB] Re: Learning Javascript

[Pat Tully]

At 11:21 AM 9/3/98 -0700, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> ... Please don't take this as a flame, but I find a lot of JavaScript
>makes no allowance for the unknown percentage of users who disable it in
>their browsers.  
> ...
>'<a href ="javascript:history.back()">' and '<A HREF="javascript:
>NewWin()">' take me exactly nowhere, which means that if I do get into one
>of your "Where do I find..." screens, I have no links available to take me
>anywhere else, nor can I access the online help anywhere in your catalog. ...

This is something we had not thought of.  In the case of the Previous
Screen link in the Where do I find ... screens, users can use the Back
button of their browser to get back to the main menu screen.  We run the
catalog in kiosk mode in the library, but those machines do not have
JavaScript disabled.  

The unavailability of the online help screen, however, is not so easily
dismissed.  Thanks for the input; we'll give it some thought.  


Patricia A. Tully, Cataloging Librarian
Box 420, Musselman Library
Gettysburg College
300 N. Washington St.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania   17375
(717)337-7002