Re: document.location problem

[Jon Gorrono <jpgorrono@ucdavis.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Gordon McComb wrote:
> 
> At 11:18 AM 3/12/96 +0000, you wrote:
> >Thanks for the responses. I double-checked to make sure I had height 
> >and width for all the images and I did (haven't been bitten by that 
> >particular bug yet) and I tried Gordon's suggestion-and it still 
> >crashed. Perhaps I wasn't specific enough about what I was trying to 
> >do. What I'm basically trying to do is write a script that will read 
> >the last link in a document, and load that link into a frame. Here's 
> >my frameset:
> >
<snip>
> > 
> >And here's my script (with comments)
> >
> >function getNext() {
> >	var i=parent.frames[1].document.links.length  
> >//return the number of links in the document
> >
> >parent.frames[1].location=parent.frames[1].document.links[--i]
>
> Crimie!  Yet another for the "this doesn't work under..." notebook.  FWIW, I
> tested the code I sent under Windows 95 and 3.1, and it seems to work there
> (though I got a GPF once, however it might have been for other reasons).
> One thing you could do: suggest people buy a PC? <bg>
>
> If I have a chance today or tomorrow I'll try this on my Mac.  It's only a
> lowlr 040 Performa, though, and not a PPC.
>
>
> -- Gordon

Crashed hard on a 040 Mac...twice. But, I had repeated success with 
the following in getNext():

parent.frames[1].location.assign(parent.frames[1].document.links[--i].href);


JP

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