Links stopped working

Question

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

Answer 1

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.
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)