BY:Mario Chiesa...Homepage
DATE:1997-07-25

Finally, with the latest release of Netscape, i can implement this function... It's a very short code, but it's very powerful indeed! Feel free to use it for personal use, just email me for notifying it. Commercial uses are forbidden unless previous agreement.

The click'n'link function allows the user to select any text in the client area as he usually does in visual applications ( holding down the left button and moving the mouse for free text, double-clicking the left button for whole words) and to perform i.e. searching tasks with the so-captured text as keywords. If the user select a phrase, automatically quotation marks will be inserted.

Basically, this script helps the user in data input for database searches, avoids mistyping words and eases the ordinary work.
In other implementations, a double-clicked word can directly start an URL invocation, performing so an hyperhypertext where each word in the text could really be an anchor to another URL! Obviously, a great part of the work must be implemented on the server side, typically with a CGI program or a java servlet.

A simple demo is below: select any word or phrase in the whole document text and set the obvious options. Have fun!!! A ' The arauana project ' production
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