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I just put together a small table to pull up a page from Noah Webster's Dictionary (it's a brainstorming technique that works well for me).? The URL appears to be well-formed, but when I click on the anchor, a browser comes up with a blank page.? But if I paste its URL in my normal Chrome browser, the page loads just fine. I'm wondering if TableSmith's embedded browser is too out of date?? Or am I missing something?

The code is:
%Temp%,
%Page%,82
%ReferencePath%,https://archive.org/details/websterscomplete00webs/page/
%PathEnd%,/mode/1up
#example generated URL:
#https://archive.org/details/websterscomplete00webs/page/1034/mode/1up
?
;Start
1 ,|Page={Dice~1d1563+81}|
_|Temp={Replace~ ,,%ReferencePath% %Page% %PathEnd%}|
_Inspiration: <a href="%Temp%" target="Webster">WORD</a> [Quadrant]
?
;Quadrant
1 ,Upper Left Column
1 ,Upper Right Column
1 ,Lower Left Column
1 ,Lower Right Column
1 ,Upper Center Column
1 ,Lower Center Column
 

The embedded browser is pretty old (I've been meaning to find the time to update TS to .NET Core, or now, .NET 6), but links should work. The target of "Webster" may be confusing it. Have you tried omitting the "target" attribute?

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 at 9:11 AM, sdavies2720 via groups.io <sdavies2720@...> wrote:

I just put together a small table to pull up a page from Noah Webster's Dictionary (it's a brainstorming technique that works well for me).? The URL appears to be well-formed, but when I click on the anchor, a browser comes up with a blank page.? But if I paste its URL in my normal Chrome browser, the page loads just fine. I'm wondering if TableSmith's embedded browser is too out of date?? Or am I missing something?

The code is:
%Temp%,
%Page%,82
%ReferencePath%,https://archive.org/details/websterscomplete00webs/page/
%PathEnd%,/mode/1up
#example generated URL:
#https://archive.org/details/websterscomplete00webs/page/1034/mode/1up
?
;Start
1 ,|Page={Dice~1d1563+81}|
_|Temp={Replace~ ,,%ReferencePath% %Page% %PathEnd%}|
_Inspiration: <a href="%Temp%" target="Webster">WORD</a> [Quadrant]
?
;Quadrant
1 ,Upper Left Column
1 ,Upper Right Column
1 ,Lower Left Column
1 ,Lower Right Column
1 ,Upper Center Column
1 ,Lower Center Column
 

I've tried removing the "Webster" target reference and I got an error message that might point out the problem:



Looking more carefully: if I go back to my original code and open a new window, I get a warning question that Explorer is no longer supported and do I want to open in Edge?? If I say yes to that, Edge opens the page just fine.? But then subsequent pages don't seem to give that warning and just load a mostly blank page. So I suspect it's the script on archive.org that is blocking things when it doesn't like the old browser.

Steve
 

Yeah, I think the browser component is still IE-based. I looked at updating that not too long ago but it was more work than I had time for at the time.

I should take another look when I get a chance, TS should really be moved from .NET Framework to something a little newer.

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 at 9:53 AM, sdavies2720 via groups.io <sdavies2720@...> wrote:

I've tried removing the "Webster" target reference and I got an error message that might point out the problem:



Looking more carefully: if I go back to my original code and open a new window, I get a warning question that Explorer is no longer supported and do I want to open in Edge?? If I say yes to that, Edge opens the page just fine.? But then subsequent pages don't seem to give that warning and just load a mostly blank page. So I suspect it's the script on archive.org that is blocking things when it doesn't like the old browser.

Steve

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