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You can sometimes make some sense of javascript using a text browser and 
reveal codes.  For instance:
http://uuis.umich.edu/events/calendar.cfm?sponsor=155

The link to a Sat Jan 10 horn recital is javascript, but revealing codes 
shows you the actual information (which Opera shows at page bottom if you 
click on the link - is this supposed to be a popup window?).

Senior Recital:  Chris Jackson, horn  (that is all you can normally see)
followed by (when you reveal codes)

</h1><span class=\'dt\'&gt:8:00 PM&lt+;/span><br /&gt...... 
location ...E. V. Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall.......
(I probably mistyped this - see the original page).

Steven, could you write some simple script for extracting information from 
pages like this after downloading them, which removed the &....; and 
/span...; and other non-informative stuff?

Since  ; is also used in the actual text, you would need to remove only to 
the first occurrence after & or span.

The web page would be much smaller and download faster without the 
javascript parts, but would look larger on the screen.  They could have 
written it with links to other pages instead, to both look and be smaller. 
Maybe some MS HTML editor encourages this sort of behavior.


Sindi Keesan