h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You can find this little gadget here:
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We all know what it does...
What do you say?
Is it worth it?

There already is(was) one. If you try(ed) to submit an entry, and then clicked the button again, you would get that very message. I'll go and test it now, i can't remember if it still happens.

Tango

Yes, it still does it. Although there is a different message the first time, so you have to be really quick (why does the site only run fast when you want to test something that needs it be slow? )

Tango

Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/quiz/button2.html

doesn't

do the same thing?

in the actual thing it's


function runSubmit () {
submit+=1;
if(submit>2) {alert("Please do not press this button again."); return (false);}
if(submit>1) {alert("Your Guide Entry has been submitted. Please be patient..."); return (false);}
return(true);


but i doubt that would work cuz your not submitting anything... but you could make it give both messages with just a little bit more coding... probably. not that i know anything about javascript.

The trouble with the update button is that it generates those messages even when the form *hasn't* genuinely been sent off. So then you can't submit it properly without taking a copy (not possible for digibox users), backing off and starting again.

which is just anooying and makes you (me at least) have to refresh and i usually ctrl-c just in case changes have been lost...


but the actual button isn't that hard to make... you could even do one for a guestbook that has the same problem, just to be bothersome.