On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:02:53PM -0600, Penguin Lover John Jolet squawked: > javascript is, in fact, not java. typically, in the context of web > sites, java is run server-side and essentially returns html for your
Not quite. Java applets are mostly run client side, with possibly a server-side counterpart for communications. > browser to interpret. javascript, on the other hand, was, I believe, > developed by netscape, not sun. they just called it that because it > has some similarities with java. it is client-side, like microsoft's > proprietary activex technology. Their response was probably fine, > since there is, in fact, no java in javascript, despite the name. :) > > Oddly enough, I had no problems with the smith and noble website with > firefox on my gentoo laptop...but that was a few months ago. > Also, I can reproduce the error on http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 with firefox 1.0.7-r2 and mozilla-1.7.12-r2 Javascript Console on both shows the following: Error: document.frm_bundle.heroImage has no properties SourceFile: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 line 114 For what it's worth, I believe those people reporting "success" might be trying the wrong page. The website redirects all deep-links to the front page. To reproduce the error, go to the frontpage of smith and noble, on the left hand side, click Photo Gallery. Choose an arbitrary gallery from the right when it appears, open up javascript console from "Tools->Javascript console" in Firefox or "Tools->Web development->Javascript Console" in Mozilla. Click on one of the thumbnails on the right (the hyperlink should say "javascript.switchImage(2)"), and see the image fail to load. To the OP: that might also be one of the reasons your bug was marked invalid. They cannot reproduce the error from the description you gave. >From my limited knowledge of javascript, I can't tell whether it is a badly written javascript that parses in IE but not in Firefox, or Firefox not supporting the full "standard", or perhaps the site-designer used some IE-only extensions. I haven't tried Opera or Konqueror (don't have either installed). Any input? W -- "`The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin, `and the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.'" - Marvin reflecting back on his 576,000,003,579 year career as Milliways' car park attendent. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 36 days, 12:54 -- [email protected] mailing list
