workalike for top.location.watch("href",fn) in IE?

[Gordon Mohr]

I'd like to set up a bit of javascript to be run when other javascript
loads a new page via something like { top.window.location.href =
newLocation }, and have access to the new value. (For example, so that
the target URL can be modified before fetching.)

In Mozilla, top.location.watch("href",fn) works well for this purpose.

In IE, neither watch() nor an onpropertychange handler set on
top.window.location work.

Any tricks to making this work? Any alternate approaches I should
consider.

Any help appreciated. Thanks,

- Gordon @ IA

 

[Michael Winter]

[snip]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml
/reference/events/onbeforeunload.asp

It's best to surround long URLs with <URL:...>. This tends to stop line
feeds from breaking them. Also, those particular MSDN URLs containing
/library/default.asp?url= rely on use of the tree on the left-hand side
which isn't compatible with all browsers. Removing that part, producing

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events/onbeforeunload.asp>

will take you to the right page regardless of what browser is used.

Mike

 

[RobB]

[snip]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml
/reference/events/onbeforeunload.asp

It's best to surround long URLs with <URL:...>. This tends to stop line
feeds from breaking them. Also, those particular MSDN URLs containing
/library/default.asp?url= rely on use of the tree on the left-hand side
which isn't compatible with all browsers. Removing that part, producing

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events/onbeforeunload.asp>

will take you to the right page regardless of what browser is used.

Mike

Thanks Mike!