Posted by: tahir
Javascript won't work - 12/06/2006 16:29
Why won't javascript on this board work for me? I'm running FF 1.5.0.4 on Win2K with Sun Java v 1.5.0.
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with Sun Java v 1.5.0.
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I don't know. I'm running 1.5.0.4 on Windows XP and everything on this board works fine for me.
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...I'd expect it to select the word I double-clicked on, but in IE, I'm getting a JavaScript error. I wonder if it's an IE-ism, or if it's actually broken?
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Specifically which bit of Javascript on the board is broken, anyway?
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This has nothing to do with javascript except for the letters J, A, V, and A in the name.
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Everything else seems to work for me in firefox.
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Right, so where and how does javascript work? (Never understood it or Java)
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Can you do a linky (or anything else in the UBB Code box)?
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Proper history, including how it is an offspin of ECMAScript
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Proper history, including how it is an offspin of ECMAScript
I can't find a definition of "offspin" except in the cricketing sense, so maybe it does indeed mean the reverse of "spinoff", but just for certainty's sake, Javascript was lashed together at Netscape, and only later standardised as ECMAScript. ECMAScript compliance only, without reimplementing all the Netscape Javascript foibles, is not good enough for real-world web browsers.