[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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