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Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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OK, that works fine for me - that means it's probably not to do with the
scripting tools that were disabled.

Many many thanks Todd!!  You are a genius when it comes to working out these
little bugs.  ;-)

Cheers ...

Geoffrey Hyde


Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:FyrI2B.JBF@lugnet.com...
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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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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