Remote Sensing Tools

I’ve spent the last day and night trying to come-up with anything that’d work outside of the iframe. I’m now officially ready to leave this alone and wait until the Google Maps team implements a method to open links outside the iframe.

The options that I’d like to have, is to load the links in the same document window (similar to _parent), and to open in a new browser window (similar to _blank). By including these two options — it would provide ways of serving up linked content through the iframe that would also not be ‘intrusive’ to users who prefer to not have links externally loaded in a new window. This also has implications in mobile reading, as well as Kiosk reading. There’s also the issue of users who turn Javascript off, which is why I’d prefer to see Google provide a solution for this that’ll work with those considerations.

Among the tests were up to eight different Javascript methods [and a number of variations of those methods] — all of which produced ‘access denied’ or ‘permission denied’ errors. Somewhat frustrating.

One of the things that I did notice in Google’s code, was that they’re using the STRICT DTD, yet they have the target attribute in use in various places. I scratched my head a little bit over this, considering that target was stricken from the STRICT DTD paradigm. I also noticed that in the HTML’s code editor, the br tags are not being closed with a space before the slash — and that for some reason everytime I save, additional p tags are added.