Re: online phone book

Dear Jim

In message <c0d16f7a55.jim@abbeypress.net>
Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

>Jim Nagel wrote on 28 Apr:
>> Can anybody point me to a free online telephone directory that works
>> on Netsurf?
>
>None?

This arrived same time as your originating post. Had a look at the
textual source of the page to which http://thephonebook.bt.com
immerdiately switches you, namely of

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/index.publisha

It is a load of Javascript, no doubt mandated by google, advertisers,
business partners et al, which gets you to choose an initial letter
for the locality whose code you want. Say that was 'X'. Then
it takes you to
http://thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/uk_codes/index.byname.publisha?Character=X
which gives a page showing a list of choices. Click on one and you get
its local dialling code.
If you try
http://thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/advanced.publisha
you will get a page that NetSurf can cope with that asks you to input information:
surname, initial, town etc. When I entered your name, and "Glastonbury"
it told me
J Nagel
Tel: (01458) 833603
32 Norbins Rd, Glastonbury, BA6 9JG

Hope this helps. I would be amazed if pleas for a Javascript-free interface did
not fall upon deaf ears. It is a thin unnecessary veneer. But using the
info embedded in the page, as above, you may be able to bypass it all.
--
Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/