On 30/09/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah... would it be possible to have a client-side
script to determine
the proper error message based on the requested subdomain?
Mark
That was one option I'd considered (and would have implemented, had I
not run out of mid-semester break). It shouldn't be too difficult,
anyway. If someone wants to spend some time writing some Javascript
for this, inserting %U will insert the whole URL, from which you can
likely get the subdomain. Otherwise, I'll get around to it in the next
couple of weeks and submit it with the few changes that have been
requested by people.
I tested this error message on IE6, Firefox 1.0.6, Netscape 8, Opera
8.02, Lynx, Konqueror, e-Links and NCSA Mosaic (just to see if it
worked in ultra-old browsers). The Javascript works in its entirety in
Konqueror, IE and Firefox/Netscape. Opera does most of it fine except
it doesn't colour the links according to which language is currently
selected, because Opera doesn't currently support document.styleSheet
which is what I used. I suppose the page could be rejigged to remedy
this but it seems like too much effort for what is essentially a
cosmetic thing. Surprisingly, the page displays perfectly in Internet
Explorer (the strikethrough is faded in IE), which may offend some
free software purists out there (hey, I'm sending this email to the
technical list).
~Mark Ryan