Re: [MacPerl] Timeout script

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 0:37 -0600 4/25/98, Mark & Kris Manning wrote:
>A PRO-active solution would be to switch to JavaScript which works in
>both Netscape Navigator as well as Internet Explorer.  What you would do
>is to create a timer in JavaScript which checks to see how long the
>person has been viewing a screen and, after a given time period, does
>something.
>
>Using both JavaScript and Perl, you can make it so a person can not keep
>a screen up indefinitely as well as to remove a screen from in front of
>a person whenever you want.

What happens to/for those of us who run with JavaScript disabled (Java
also, but that's moot here)?  Either the timer doesn't work or I can't
visit.  If I can't visit...that's fine:  I make a quick decision whether
the site seems worth activating JavaScript and deactivating it later.

    --John

--
John Baxter (Born before ENIAC, but not by much.)
   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA



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