[WEB4LIB] Linking to sites that cripple navigation

[Hambleton, John]

I cannot log in but, my guess is that
a new browser window is opened in JavaScript.
In my experience the back/forward buttons are
"grayed out" but you just close this window and
behold! You uncover the page that you were at
previously. FWIW.
Mr. H

At 11:40 AM 9/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I recently received a complaint about a site that we cataloged in
>KidsClick!. The site in question is the Brainium:
>http://www.brainium.com/
>The complaint was that the jscript at this site disabled the Back button,
>making it impossible to go back to a search result set in KidsClick! It was
>suggested that we both complain to Brainium web masters and--failing
>that--remove it from the KidsClick! catalog.
>Web4libbers:
>1) Could someone tell me the exact jscript command that is doing this? I
>don't see it.
>2) What do you think of deselecting sites in a library-managed web guide
>that intentionally cripple normal browser commands?
>
>Jerry Kuntz
>Ramapo Catskill Library System
>jkuntz at rcls.org
>


+John S. "Dilbert" Hambleton
+Computer Scientist and Eccentric
+Olson Library
+Northern Michigan University
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