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Foil 68 Some Needed JavaScript Technologies

From Distance Education: How to do it DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Tutorial Monterey California, ACM Java Grande San Francisco, EDMEDIA Seattle -- June 7 99, June 14 99, June 20 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Signed Scripts to allow one to read data from general web pages
  • and also to make control bar always on top and narrow
2 Ability to "capture" events and either
  • take a snapshot of their properties to send to nonmaster
  • choose whether or not to accept default action (nonmaster must use cloneurl button to play around with page, as most mouse clicks ignored on shared page)
3 Most important events are CLICK and CHANGE but also allows one access to others (MOUSEOVER MOUSEOUT ONLOAD ONUNLOAD)
  • Scrolling , window size specified by system variables

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