"My
body may be stuck in this wheelchair, but with the Internet my mind can
go to the ends of the universe."
- Stephen Hawking,
University
of Cambridge Physicist, 1/6/97
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While the presentation is not impressive, this page demonstrates
the fundamental solution to the problem of scanning a set of links in
an
arbitrary HTML document. This is a big first step!
The solution involves the use of
both Javascript and the DOM model, and their proper interaction.
Implementation-level challeges included threading/wait states in
Javascript, and many DOM issues.
This improved version preserves any existing background color at each link location.
Hawking Toolbar - Link Scan
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