Posted by CADD on 08/30/06 21:22

only asking for help with the javascript, everything else seems to be
smooth sailing.

the var name takes input and doesn't get ride of it.

how can i get my variable to reset every time it is passed a variable?


Harlan Messinger wrote:
> CADD wrote:
> >> How does it work fine, when "<person/>" is just a character string that
> >> doesn't do anything?
> >> You must be using some underlying server-side
> >> platform that does something with this, but it isn't HTML and it isn't
> >> Javascript.
> >
> > It's fine because AIML is and XML-variant that gets parsed on-the-fly
> > and the <person/> is being passed to the javascript as requested. It's
> > all done via HTML on the client-side.
> >
> > Check it out for yourself if you'd like:
> >
> > http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=875d96ffae366536
> >
> > Type: "RSS baseball"
> >
> > Then try "RSS donuts"
> >
> > Besides, you don't even show any form fields for a user to
> >> enter input, so how can it be "input from a user"? All you have is
> >>
> >> <a href="javascript:Popup()"><person/></a>
> >>
> >> which is a link that executes the function Popup()--if the user can find
> >> it, because it won't show up on the page. That, in turn, is because the
> >> only thing between the opening and closing A tags is a <person/> tag
> >> that the browser won't recognize as HTML and will therefore ignore.
> >
> > It shows up on the page and everything works smooth.
> >
> > Exept for the fact the link you just clicked will be the same one,
> > unless you clear your internet browser.
> >
> > I apologize in posting in the wrong forum, but i thought a java-guy
> > might be able to ignore some trivial code and possibly offer a solution
>
> The "trivial code" involves a technology I never heard of and probably
> has something to do with the problem. If I or anyone in a similar
> position don't know the technology and therefore don't know the correct
> way to use it, how are we supposed to tell you whether what you've done
> is right or wrong?

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