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Former Member
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Every navigation button is a normal HTML link, except the "Forums" one, which is a javascript call. For anyone with a non-javascript-enabled browser, it won't work. For anyone who usually opens new pages as tabs by ctrl-click, it doesn't work. It's just a pest. Please make it a standard HTML link just like all the others.
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cio_redulla
Advanced Cruncher Philippines Joined: Apr 24, 2006 Post Count: 130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Every navigation button is a normal HTML link, except the "Forums" one, which is a javascript call. For anyone with a non-javascript-enabled browser, it won't work. For anyone who usually opens new pages as tabs by ctrl-click, it doesn't work. It's just a pest. Please make it a standard HTML link just like all the others. Just add or bookmark the following link to your favorites: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/index :-)  |
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Former Member
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Just add or bookmark the following link to your favorites: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/index I could also put an entry in my ad-blocking proxy to rewrite "javascript:redirectToForums();" as "http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/index". :) However, it's better, neater and faster if the extraneous javascript be removed from pages at the server level. |
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Sekerob
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We could sit here and guess, but what browser do u use and if Firefox, have u considered 'NoScript' as Add-In. It allows down to the web sub address to permit temporarily or permanently for Java, Flash and other script languages. Even when enabled, I've not been able to get it to open in a new tab on IE with broad Java permission and on Firefox the new tab remains blank. Opera I've taken off as a barely used it and am forced to keep IE installed because of the Auto-Update shackles.
----------------------------------------Java code removal is on the Community Advisor's recommendation list for substitution with regular code (where possible).
WCG
Please help to make the Forums an enjoyable experience for All! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
We could sit here and guess, but what browser do u use [ ... ] Java code removal is on the Community Advisor's recommendation list for substitution with regular code (where possible). I've not mentioned what browser I use because it's irrelevant. Yes, the ability to open tabs with a certain key combination is browser-specific, but the point is that any form of opening of a separate tab or a separate window requires that there be a normal HTML link, not a javascript call. Java is also irrelevant. Javascript is the issue, and they are completely different things. If you mean javascript, then let's hope they substitute regular code as per the recommendation. |
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Sekerob
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Welcome to the web-pages that were designed before tabs was a common browser feature.
----------------------------------------take care
WCG
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Former Member
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Welcome to the web-pages that were designed before tabs was a common browser feature. That's not really important. It's always been possible to open a link in a new window and lots of people do that too. ... but it requires there being a normal HTML link for it to work. Using javascript calls for navigation links is simply incredibly bad programming and always has been. (Moreso if done as a one-off when other links are normal.) |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
There are a number around the web site and had a reason. The most notorious was under the 'download now' button which was removed last week when the redesigned enrolment pages were released.
----------------------------------------The proposal as stated was to remove them where possible on the next incarnation of the website and forum..... WIP.
WCG
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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[That's not really important. It's always been possible to open a link in a new window and lots of people do that too. ... but it requires there being a normal HTML link for it to work. Using javascript calls for navigation links is simply incredibly bad programming and always has been. (Moreso if done as a one-off when other links are normal.) A little history. The forums are essentially a seperate application from the rest of the website. The MVNForum software which we use has its own way of managing users and signing them into the forums. We did not want people to have to sign into the forums as well as the website so we implemented a single-sign on solution between the two applications. This required there to be two entry points into the forums. The first entry point is for people not signed into the website and the second is for people who are signed into the website. The javascript link checks to see if you are signed in or not and then sends you to the appropriate link in the forums. The reason it is javascript is becuase the majority of the website was originally static HTML pages. We switched from static HTML to JSP pages when we released the French version of the website. However, we did not change that link over from javascript to being dynamic. We will put this on the schedule to get changed. Thanks for reminding us about it. |
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