There are free HTML editors out there as well. One I like is Arachnophilia (http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/), completely free and pretty powerful.
I've tried running IE6 on Windows 98 but had to uninstall due to too many errors/system crashes. 2.5.8-Beta 8 works just fine on W2K. Dave's a genius. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Bairen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Cannot open preferences file and JScript runtime error > Tom, > > when you double click a .js file (javascript file) it tries to run it (sort > of like an .exe). this is the same behavior you get when you try to "Open" > the file via the right click menu. > > if you want to open the files to edit them you need to right click and > choose "Edit" or "Open with" and open them with Notepad. > > the script errors you are getting is (to keep it simple, for my sake) that > the files aren't intended to be run or opened separately but rather they > were intended to be called (basically) from the search.htm file. > > the behavior you are seeing is not problematic as it really just what > happens when you try to access these files in the manner you described. > just right click and choose "Edit" if you wish to make preference changes. > > if you are using one of the 2.5.8 beta versions or if you ever intend to > upgrade to 2.5.8 or higher, then i recommend you only edit files that start > with local (localprefs.js, localsearch.css, etc.) as these files will not > get overwritten during a new install or upgrade. > > hope this helps. if not feel free to ask for more help. > > JB > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TMeath > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 4:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DQSD-Users] Cannot open preferences file and JScript runtime > error > > > When I double click on the preferences file an hourglass icon briefly > shows and then nothing happens. Same happens when I right click on the file > and then left click on 'open'. > > When I try to open some of the other files I get an error message. > For example when I tried to open 'clock' I got a box entitled "Windows > Script Host" with this info: > > Script: C:\Program Files\Quick Search Deskbar\clock.js > Line: 5 > Char: 1 > Error: 'clocklongform' is undefined > Code: 800A1391 > Source: Microsoft JScript runtime error > > When I try to open other files I get the same code with different lines, > characters and errors specified. > I'm running Windows 98 and IE 6. Can someone help me with these problems? > > Thanks, > Tom _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Dqsd-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
