Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: javascript: and about: Protocols Not Working
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:46:20 +0100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 32
Message-ID: <4EDB87BC.9010805@arnowelzel.de>
References: <66pdd7trvg6davamt33l7kb45f3v3lqdn2@4ax.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9yN0DclMS8zFXFEoPPofhg"; logging-data="652"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+T2j2U5IzsY7l2gMUDE75x/VjyewAdJhQ="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0
In-Reply-To: <66pdd7trvg6davamt33l7kb45f3v3lqdn2@4ax.com>
Cancel-Lock: sha1:oxB6vGkLODSxfbqqTCXE+k3Zt5E=
Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.javascript:8844

Gene Wirchenko, 2011-12-01 03:28:

> Dear JavaScripters:
> 
>      The text that I am using refers to javascript: and about:
> protocols.  None of the examples will run on my system (IE 9 on
> Windows 7).
> 
>      For
>           javascript:Date()
> I get nothing.  For
>           about:cache
> and
>           about:plugins
> I get a message of "Navigation to the webpage was canceled / What you
> can try: / - Retype the address."
> 
>      I have looked for settings to enable these and have found
> nothing.  What am I missing, please?

"about:" is not a "protocol" and are no standard either. So don't expect
this to work universally in any browser.

Using "javascript:" is also a bad idea - better implement an event
handler for user interaction.



-- 
Arno Welzel
http://arnowelzel.de
http://de-rec-fahrrad.de