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Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:51:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Deidre Rushton Brumby writes:
> Following up on my own post, Netscape Communicator 4.74 (not 4.4 typo)
> works fine, standard installation on Windows 98. So this set reference
> pop-up error would seem to be IE specific (from what's been reported).
Well, I'm about at wit's end here on this one, although possibly I may have
found a workaround.
Internet Exploit^H^Hrer is generally really great about being compatible with
Netscape Navigator, but in this case -- where the server is returning a MIME
type of
application/x-javascript
it's pretending that it doesn't know how to run JavaScript code. Everything
I could find indicated that this should work -- and it does in Netscape.
I found a testing table some guy was building about a year ago:
http://home.germany.net/100-261485/tests/res-all.html
which shows how complex the browser wars have gotten in the scripting area.
Anyway, tinkering with returning different values didn't help any on my test
system (Win98 + MSIE5 under Virtual PC). However, I think I may have found a
workaround which avoids the MIME issue altogether: it embeds the launch code
into a JavaScript section in the HTML page using <SCRIPT>, and then during the
onSubmit event of the form, it checks the selection and does its stuff based
on that.
Anyway, to make a long story short, for MSIE users, here's a page to try out!
http://www.lugnet.com/quickset/testsearch.html
The upshot of this is that if it works, it works on both MSIE and NN without
any special browser-detection kludgery of any kind, plus it probably pulls up
the little launched window a split-second quicker on both browsers.
--Todd
p.s. BTW, if this works, then I can have the form point to an error page for
the "Popup" selection when someone has JavaScript disabled. That way they'd
see an explanation (with helpful suggestions) rather than an "unrecognized
MIME type" dialog box.
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