Re: Support for javascript: scheme in libwww

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> I don't have any plans for this currently.  Can you (or anyone else)
> try to describe how javascript:-URLs are supposed to work?  Do they
> make sense?

Well yeah they do make sense, kinda. The australian stock exchange
is one such site which uses the javascript scheme to do other things
when the user clicks on a link. Interested readers are referred
to http://www.asx.com.au (make sure your browser is javascript enabled
if you want to get anywhere)

Basically using javascript allows (abitrary) code to be executed in response
to the user clicking on a link. The asx site uses this to update other frames
(such as a frame which displays the live stock prices). Ugly...

I cant see how you can provide decent support without writing a javascript
interpreter (including error handling). 

Andrew Cassin
acassin@cs.mu.oz.au

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