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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 10:55:04 GMT
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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
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> application/x-javascript
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> 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:
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> http://home.germany.net/100-261485/tests/res-all.html
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> 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!
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> http://www.lugnet.com/quickset/testsearch.html
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> 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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