links stopped working

Can someone look at these links and see why they might have stopped
working?


http://righttax.org/pdf.html

There are three buttons in the middle of the page which were working. I
was surprised to see that they have stopped. The files are all on the
site, the links work locally and they load if I access them directly:

http://righttax.org/pdfs/nk06.07web.xls.pdf (takes a long time to
load, sorry)

I'm stumped and would really appreciate any help.

Thanks

In article <hnwaxman-3163C5.08230802042009 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com>,
Harvey Waxman <hnwaxman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Can someone look at these pages and see why one works and one doesn't?
The three button links are identical

http://righttax.org/pdf.html and http://righttax.org/pdftest.html

There are three buttons in the middle of the page which were working. I
was surprised to see that they have stopped. The files are all on the
site, the links work locally and they load if I access them directly:

the file is http://righttax.org/pdfs/nk06.07web.xls.pdf (takes a long time to
load, sorry)

I'm stumped and would really appreciate any help.

Thanks

Harvey Waxman posted in macromedia.dreamweaver

Can someone look at these pages and see why one works and one
doesn't? The three button links are identical

http://righttax.org/pdf.html
http://righttax.org/pdftest.html

You are using form submit buttons without using the <form> element.

http://righttax.org/pdf.html

With JavaScript off, the buttons do nothing at all. With JS on, I get
all three files. As you mentioned, they are very slow loading. I
recommend using a simple text link that includes the file sizes.
Something like:

<a href="pdfs/NK06.07web.xls.pdf">N. Kingstown 06/07 data</a> (3.7 MB)

You can dress that up with CSS if you want it to have a different look
than your other links.

This has the added benefit in that users can right-click and Save As or
choose to open in a new window/tab (if their browser is set to load PDF
files in the browser).

http://righttax.org/pdftest.html

The submit buttons don't work even with JS turned on. The reason is
that there is no MM_openBrWindow() function available. That function is
typically inserted into the head section when you create such a link.
If you did this in a different file, look for the JavaScript in the
head section of that file.

My recommendation for text links applies here, too.


Side note: If you're recommending Adobe Acrobat (Adobe Reader), I
recommend linking to Adobe's reader.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Otherwise, you might want to recommend PDF Reader/Writer since that's
where you're linking.



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With JavaScript off, the buttons do nothing at all. With JS on, I get
all three files. As you mentioned, they are very slow loading. I
recommend using a simple text link that includes the file sizes.
Something like:

a href="pdfs/NK06.07web.xls.pdf">N. Kingstown 06/07 data</a> (3.7 MB)

Yep. I also include a "PDF, " before the filesize, so users already know
what they will get before clicking the link.

You can dress that up with CSS if you want it to have a different look
than your other links.

I add a little PDF icon (16x16px) before the link, so it would read:

<a class="icon pdf" href="pdfs/NK06.07web.xls.pdf">N. Kingstown 06/07
data</a> (PDF, 3.7 MB)

With this CSS:

..icon {
padding-left: 21px;
background-position: left;
background-repeat: no-repeat
}

[...]
..icon.pdf {background-image: url(/images/icons/pdf.png)}
[...]

Micha

The OP, Harvey, started a second thread, "identical pages, different
results" with the same question about 40 minutes before I replied here.
He seems to have gotten the answer he wanted there before we wasted our
time here.


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Mark A. Boyd wrote:

The OP, Harvey, started a second thread, "identical pages, different
results" with the same question about 40 minutes before I replied here.
He seems to have gotten the answer he wanted there before we wasted our
time here.

Still some excellent advice you have given here, hopefully someone will
take notice and use it. I have used this method in the past and it works
and looks very good (http://www.acspecialprojects.com/aboutus.asp).

Dooza
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You did not waste your time at all. I will look closely at your reply and I welcome the suggestions. Thanks!

harvey waxman posted in macromedia.dreamweaver

You did not waste your time at all.

Perhaps not entirely, but I did spend a little time figuring out why
your buttons didn't work. Answering a question that had already been
answered in the other thread.

I will look closely at your
reply and I welcome the suggestions. Thanks!

That's good, I think you'll like it better than the form buttons. With
CSS, you can even make the links look similar to buttons if you want
to.


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