VMs: Mailing list magic...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I've spent a bit of time over Christmas devising a bit of mailing list 
magic. :-)

A problem with Web versions of mailing lists is the lack of internal 
cross-references: so I've put together some JavaScript that, once a page 
finishes loading, manipulates the page to add hyperlinks to keywords listed 
in the JavaScript. If the browser doesn't support JavaScript, then no extra 
links appear, which is an OK fallback position. :-)

The advantage of this is that pages stay static on the server forever, 
while the only things that need change are the two JavaScript source files 
(which stay external to the HTML), which can be updated as 
cross-referencing expands. Neat! :-)

Here's the first test page:-

	http://www.nickpelling.com/voynich/mailtest.html

On my PC, this appears to work fine under IE6.0 and K-Meleon 0.7 (one of 
the recent Mozilla spin-offs), but not yet under NS4.76 and NS6 (though I'm 
on the case). Can I ask you to try this out on your own browsers, please, 
in case any subtle incompatibilities need sniffing out?

If, once the link above loads, Kircher, Kinner, Prague, f1r, f22v, f103r 
all appear as hyperlinks to (currently non-existent) pages on 
http://www.voynich.info/ then your browser would appear to be working fine 
with it - but please let me know either way! :-)

Thanks, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: if you're interested, the two JavaScript files are:-
	http://www.nickpelling.com/voynich/keywords.js
	http://www.nickpelling.com/voynich/linkify.js 

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