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Jay Turley
jay at weberrific.org
Fri Oct 27 13:54:57 CDT 2000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seb Barre [mailto:sebastien at oven.com]
>
> At 02:25 PM 10/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi all-
> >
> >Can any of you all suggest why the javascript: protocol
> stops working when
> >an article is loaded into the content frame?
>
> This has to do with the scripting security model in browsers.
> As soon as
> the content in the right frame comes from a different server
> than the root
> page and/or the other frame, Javascript calls in your left
> frame can't
> access anything in the right frame. This is to stop someone
> from "framing"
> your site and using Javascript to redirect form submissions
> and/or modify
> the functionality of your site without your (or the surfer's)
> knowledge.
>
> Your best bet would be to have the form in the left hand nav (you can
> easily keep it hidden) and just have it target the right
> frame when it
> submits, as opposed to having Javascript call the form submit
> on the form
> located in the right-side frame..
>
> Let me know if I'm not explaining myself properly. =)
Oh no, you explained it perfectly clearly. I had thought that this might be
causing the problem, but I had no way of testing it. As a matter-of-fact, I
was just doing some web searches on javascript and security, and you have
saved me a TON of reading. Thanks, Seb.
- Jay Turley ---------------------------------------------------------
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