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zol666tan
18-Sep-11, 07:15

GK HOME PAGE : WORLD CHESS NEWS ! How to read the whole articles.
I can not get the full article to "pop up" when I want to read it entirely.
Is it not possible ? Or is there a glitch ?

Every title in the "News page" is URL'able (underline, highlight ) but when I click it
it dsiplays the home page again.
Am I missing something ?
zol666tan
19-Sep-11, 05:57

I am not an HTML designer/coder but I wonder ....
1 -
The page source for THAT home page has this instruction for each NEWS title ...
onMouseOver="this.href='/news.pl?id=17862';" target="_blank">

2 -
Johan Petersson, an "expert" AFAI can read makes the following case :
*** The folly of target="_blank" ***
"
Some web designers think their sites are so important that any external link must be opened in a new browser window and will use a variety of tricks to force these popups to happen. A particularly problematic practice is relying entirely on scripting for doing this, breaking links in the process: ....
"
www.trilithium.com

3-- Is this a case of 1 + 2 =3 ?
Who can read the FULL news on one's own GK home page ?
zol666tan
19-Sep-11, 07:03

Deleted by zol666tan on 20-Sep-11, 09:08.
zol666tan
20-Sep-11, 09:09

THE END - THANKS to Johan Petersson
Reading his article gave me the right hint.

The articles are opened correctly in FireFox after a very short delay while displaying msg :
"Opening external page ....";

Since I use OPERA for GK and almost only for GK
and since I imminently shall upgrade my Ubuntu to 11.10 OO ( thus new V.r of FFx & Op)
I will not bother to solve the problem now.

If any web designer/developer reads this (GK's own or player),
the article cited in my previous post is worth reading.

Thanks Z666N for your feedback.