[thelist] Save me from JavaScript humiliation
Fred D Yocum
fdy at mcc.org
Mon Feb 12 13:16:05 CST 2007
Thank you for the responses. I had not realized I was asking for the
setTimeout to be 25 seconds. I thought it was two seconds -- set so that I
could see what was happening, lessened later when I knew the script was
working.
Users will arrive at this page on a CD very occasionally. They are going
to be looking for a very specific bit of information. "What the policy is
for workers wishing to have a home birth?" or "How to limit the damage
when a partner organization is found to be fraudulent?" They may spend
minutes traversing the tree to click on one link or thirty minutes
clicking hundreds.
I had originally had a notification appear prior to loading the new page,
but it was felt that would become annoying after the third link clicked.
Having a static visible notification at the link would mean hundreds of
lines all ending with the same statement -- visually cluttered and
difficult to scan.
They could have a notification with the option to switch off the popup.
They would also need to know the link (which they spent thirty minutes
finding) when they return using the back button -- will have disappeared
with a page refresh disappeared with the page refresh. Would need to know
this each time they use this CD because they may not access again for
three or four months or a year.
I could have put the information in the introductory text at the top of
the page, but we all know how well this gets read.
I though having a message blink on telling people what is happening but
not delaying the process (buggered that up didn't I) was the best way to
go. Having said all of the above, Most people will use the search function
rather than go through the pain of looking through hundreds of lines in a
listing.
-- I was trying to be clever and roll too much into the same JavaScript.
What I will do is separate out the alertMessage and put this on the
mouseover method for the link.
many thanks again,
Frederick D Yocum
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