[wilhelmtux-discussion] Code question re Microsoft's Digital Literacy tutorials (part of the IT-Fitness initiative)
Manfred Morgner
manfred.morgner at gmx.net
Fri Oct 19 00:44:09 CEST 2007
Hallo Claude,
with the current Safari from MacOSX 10.4 it looks like your
Screenshot from Firefox:
- Firefox <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/
2262/1585956385_3ad39aab93_m.jpg>
> with my deliberately limited version of Opera. But the point is not
> so much the graphics in the layout as the impossibility to open the
> tutorial links at the bottom with these 4 browsers. Have you been able
> to fix these links too?
I didn't spent so much time on fixing the links. The link content is
served by JavaScript code using a call as in AJAX. Funny is, that
they didn't use a simple AJAX call from prototype.js - I believe, the
creators of this page really need some advise in using Free Software.
They added functionality which leads to the result we know - for no
good reason.
Solving this problem means, dealing with an unknown (not Free) server
application using JS on the client side. This is possible, without
doubt, but sometimes such problems are too expensive to become solved
from an outsider - and only for fun. So I did not analyze the problem
long enough to solve it. If I see code, using a well functional,
tested and efficient toolbox (like prototype.js), blown up with
senseless code but not working, I become too tiered to work on it.
Some days ago I did some tests with prototype.js on my own Content-
Presentation-System because I'm currently rewriting it, adding some
functions with AJAX to upgrade my CPS to an CMS. The result was
overwhelming. Prototype.js is a ready to use toolbox for AJAX, no
need to add anything if you wish to make AJAX calls; it simply works
as expected. I did tests on all well known Browsers but not with IE,
because I don't have IE installed anywhere. But I'm sure, even the IE
will work well with prototype.js.
Best regards,
Manfred.
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