Searching The Guardian

[Harriet Bazley]

On 22 Nov 2008 as I do recall,
          netsurf-users-request at netsurf-browser.org wrote:

> I've tried the above search in both Firefox 3.04 and Netsurf 1.1 in Kubuntu 
> 8.04, and noticed that the result page's URL is different:

[snip]

> It does look like there is some Javascript involved in the search,
> sending the browser to a different page depending on whether
> Javascript is running or not
> 
> <form id="search" action="http://www.guardian.co.uk/websearch" method="get" 
> onsubmit="return 
> SearchForm(true, 'http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=','http://www.guardian.co.uk/search/users');">
> 
I wonder if it could possibly be a bug - an attempt to cope with
non-JavaScript browsers that accidentally fails, and that has never been
noticed because no-one who administers the site has ever *tried* it with
JavaScript disabled....

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Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground... and missing.