top.location.replace()

[Alan Little]

Do a search at this site:

http://www.mindsift.com/

Select a non-sponsored link, then give the site a rating. The rating
frame closes. Now click your "back" button. If you're using IE, you'll go
back to the search results. This is the desired behavior. In NS, FF and
Opera, it takes you back to the frameset. I'm using top.location.replace;
from my understanding that should do it. I *hate* it when only IE does
what I want.

Any ideas why this doesn't work, or how I can achieve the desired
behavior? I inherited this code from someone else. I tried using the
closeframe() method which they used for the "remove this frame" link, but
that just closes the frame, and leaves the history entry, so that you
still have to back up twice to get to the search results.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

[TheBagbournes]

Alan Little wrote:

Do a search at this site:

http://www.mindsift.com/

Select a non-sponsored link, then give the site a rating. The rating
frame closes. Now click your "back" button. If you're using IE, you'll go
back to the search results. This is the desired behavior. In NS, FF and
Opera, it takes you back to the frameset. I'm using top.location.replace;
from my understanding that should do it. I *hate* it when only IE does
what I want.

Any ideas why this doesn't work, or how I can achieve the desired
behavior? I inherited this code from someone else. I tried using the
closeframe() method which they used for the "remove this frame" link, but
that just closes the frame, and leaves the history entry, so that you
still have to back up twice to get to the search results.

IIRC, top.location.replace is IE only.

[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
TheBagbournes of comp.lang.javascript make plain:

Alan Little wrote:

Do a search at this site:

http://www.mindsift.com/

Select a non-sponsored link, then give the site a rating. The rating
frame closes. Now click your "back" button. If you're using IE,
you'll go back to the search results. This is the desired behavior.
In NS, FF and Opera, it takes you back to the frameset. I'm using
top.location.replace; from my understanding that should do it. I
*hate* it when only IE does what I want.

Any ideas why this doesn't work, or how I can achieve the desired
behavior? I inherited this code from someone else. I tried using the
closeframe() method which they used for the "remove this frame" link,
but that just closes the frame, and leaves the history entry, so that
you still have to back up twice to get to the search results.

IIRC, top.location.replace is IE only.

I can't find anything that says that, and I'm able to reference the top
object for other things (I also tried parent) and use the replace method
in other browsers, just not together.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

[Randy Webb]

Alan Little said the following on 3/19/2006 6:40 PM:

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
TheBagbournes of comp.lang.javascript make plain:

Alan Little wrote:

Do a search at this site:

http://www.mindsift.com/

Select a non-sponsored link, then give the site a rating. The rating
frame closes. Now click your "back" button. If you're using IE,
you'll go back to the search results. This is the desired behavior.
In NS, FF and Opera, it takes you back to the frameset. I'm using
top.location.replace; from my understanding that should do it. I
*hate* it when only IE does what I want.

Any ideas why this doesn't work, or how I can achieve the desired
behavior? I inherited this code from someone else. I tried using the
closeframe() method which they used for the "remove this frame" link,
but that just closes the frame, and leaves the history entry, so that
you still have to back up twice to get to the search results.

IIRC, top.location.replace is IE only.

I can't find anything that says that, and I'm able to reference the top
object for other things (I also tried parent) and use the replace method
in other browsers, just not together.

..replace() on the location object is far from IE only.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

TheBagbournes wrote:

IIRC, top.location.replace is IE only.

You "remember" incorrectly. This method is supported since JavaScript 1.1
(in Netscape). It is therefore supported by virtually all script-enabled
Web browsers.
PointedEars

[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Alan
Little of comp.lang.javascript make plain:

Any ideas why this doesn't work, or how I can achieve the desired
behavior?

OK, this is driving me nuts, and if I don't get this figured out soon, I
going to go postal on some browser programmers.

With a great deal of blood, sweat and tears and some voodoo involving a
severed chicken head, a browser sniffer and a spatula, I was able to get
it to work in FF and Opera. The only holdout is NS, and I'd really like
to get it to work before the devil comes to claim my soul on the deal I
did for the other two.

NS has been entertaining me with all kinds of idiocy. If I minimize the
ratings frame, like I do for FF and Opera, NS just blinks at me, and
creates four copies of the target URL in the history, but three of them
are dead -- the Back button doesn't work, and the only way to go back is
to make a selection from the dropdown. In several of the thousands of
solutions I've attempted (any of which, logically, should have worked),
everything is fine until I add the location setting. It then skips
everything except the location setting, tacking the target URL onto the
history, and sometimes making dead copies. Although with one of the
solutions (I forget which one), I did discovere that I could get it to
work if I add an alert() in there. That's F*ING logical, right?

Can anybody provide some insight, perhaps suggest a way to get NS to do
what I'm trying to do? Anybody? Anybody? While I still have one or two
shreds of sanity left?

The JS file is at http://www.mindsift.com/html/programs/drate.js

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/