RE: Explorer oddities

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13549
interpreted = N
texte = Ulf -Do you have a URL where we can take a look at this? You may be right - it may be an MSIE 3.0b1 problem we can't do anything about, but maybe I'll get some ideas by trying it out. If nothing else, you could always use [showif [browsername]=(whatever MSIE 3.0b1 identifies itself as)] with to display non-frames pages to this specific browser, or put it in your Browser Info.txt database and use the [HTML1], [HTML2], or [HTML3] contexts to separate frames and non-frames pages for older and newer browsers (there's more information on this in the documentation).hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/>I have created a simple test solution which consist of four pages. The first >one is a common default.html entry page with no WEBDNA at all. The second is a >frameset named org.html, with two frames. > >The right frame has a search context to get all items in the database >catalog.txt. There are only five records in the database. This works fine. > >[search db=catalog.txt&geSKUdata=0&SKUsort=1&SKUsdir=as&max=20] >[foundItems] > > > > > >
[SKU][Title][Price]HEIGHT=16 ALIGN=BOTTOM> HREF=1.tmpl$add?db=catalog.txt&SKU=[SKU]&cart=[cart] TARGET=left >ALIGN=Bottom SRC=hand.gif WIDTH=16 HEIGHT=16 ALT=Add> >
>[/foundItems] >[/search] > >With every listed record is a HREF with a command, as you can see above, to >add this item to the cart created or called in same command and list that in >the left frame as seen below. There is no form to specify any number of each >item, if you want more than one you pick several times. > > >[LineItems] >[SKU] >[Title] >[Price] > TARGET=left >ALIGN=BOTTOM> >[/LineItems] >  >Totalt kr: >[subTotal] > >Now, everything works just as expected IN NETSCAPE 3.01. > >In EXPLORER 3.0b1 however, the thing goes berserk. You cannot pick the same >thing more than once without picking something else inbetween and then when >you go back and pick something that's already in the line items it might as >well as adding to the cart, remove from it instead, in order to show the >latest pick of the same kind at the bottom of the list. Hence not adding >anything. > >I suppose this might be an HTML issue rather than WebCat as there is also >problem when going back to the default page and thus leaving the cart token. >When reentering the frames a new token should be created, and is in Netscape, >but in Explorer I'm coming back to the old one. > >Anyone got any ideas abut this. >Yes I know its'a beta, but there's a lot of them out there. > >Ulf Backman Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. RE: Explorer oddities (Ulf Backman 1997)
  2. RE: Explorer oddities (Marc Eagle 1997)
Ulf -Do you have a URL where we can take a look at this? You may be right - it may be an MSIE 3.0b1 problem we can't do anything about, but maybe I'll get some ideas by trying it out. If nothing else, you could always use [showif
[browsername]=(whatever MSIE 3.0b1 identifies itself as)] with to display non-frames pages to this specific browser, or put it in your Browser Info.txt database and use the [HTML1], [HTML2], or [HTML3] contexts to separate frames and non-frames pages for older and newer browsers (there's more information on this in the documentation).hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/>I have created a simple test solution which consist of four pages. The first >one is a common default.html entry page with no WEBDNA at all. The second is a >frameset named org.html, with two frames. > >The right frame has a search context to get all items in the database >catalog.txt. There are only five records in the database. This works fine. > >[search db=catalog.txt&geSKUdata=0&SKUsort=1&SKUsdir=as&max=20] >[founditems] > > > > > >
[SKU][Title][Price]HEIGHT=16 ALIGN=BOTTOM> HREF=1.tmpl$add?db=catalog.txt&SKU=[SKU]&cart=[cart] TARGET=left >ALIGN=Bottom SRC=hand.gif WIDTH=16 HEIGHT=16 ALT=Add> >
>[/foundItems] >[/search] > >With every listed record is a HREF with a command, as you can see above, to >add this item to the cart created or called in same command and list that in >the left frame as seen below. There is no form to specify any number of each >item, if you want more than one you pick several times. > > >[lineitems] >[SKU] >[Title] >[Price] >[cart] > TARGET=left >ALIGN=BOTTOM> >[/LineItems] >  >Totalt kr: >[subTotal] > >Now, everything works just as expected IN NETSCAPE 3.01. > >In EXPLORER 3.0b1 however, the thing goes berserk. You cannot pick the same >thing more than once without picking something else inbetween and then when >you go back and pick something that's already in the line items it might as >well as adding to the cart, remove from it instead, in order to show the >latest pick of the same kind at the bottom of the list. Hence not adding >anything. > >I suppose this might be an HTML issue rather than WebCat as there is also >problem when going back to the default page and thus leaving the cart token. >When reentering the frames a new token should be created, and is in Netscape, >but in Explorer I'm coming back to the old one. > >Anyone got any ideas abut this. >Yes I know its'a beta, but there's a lot of them out there. > >Ulf Backman Marc Eagle

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