Re: [ISO] Web page embedded help controls

Subject: Re: [ISO] Web page embedded help controls
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:26:20 -0700 (PDT)


Phillip St. James wrote:
> Would anyone share some onmouseover tricks that enable
> the active area of a page to remain active while a
> JavaScript or other web page layer control spawns a
> sub-layer that contains both text and hotlinks

Maybe XmlHttpRequest will work for what you need.

I first heard about it here:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/159211

which led me to:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/09/xml-http-request.html

and here's some nice simple examples:
http://www.blakespot.com/xml.html
http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/staticjah.html

Mike O.

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