I haven't noticed any severe problems with the testing I've done (WinXP SP3,
IE7 and IE8). But I spend most of my time with Firefox.
Dean
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> In case it's any consolation -- Windows 7 running MSIE 8.0.7100.0 works
> just fine. It's possible that one of my family members enabled scripting for
> applets, but I doubt it. It's a recent build. Do we need to trap this in
> jmolScript()?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Gutow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Angel,
>> Thanks for the offer. I've found the problem for web pages off of
>> servers. It appears that (as is often the case in MS products) you
>> have to turn things on (and off) in more than one place to get them to
>> work. In IE 8 just choosing to allow active content when warned (ie
>> Javascript and ActiveX) does not work. You also have to go to Tools >
>> Internet Options > Security Tab > Custom Level... button and then make
>> sure that "Active Scripting" and "Scripting of Applets" is enabled. I
>> would guess many people will not be able to get pages with applets and
>> javascript working in IE8.
>>
>> I haven't found how to get it to behave for local files.
>>
>> Two comments:
>> 1) IE8 appears to be 4 - 10 times slower than Firefox.
>> 2) IE8 appears to have a nice developer's tools for debugging.
>> However, on my test machine it is so slow, that I don't think I will
>> have the patience to use it.
>>
>> Jonathan
>> On Oct 4, 2009, at 7:27 AM, [email protected]
>> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Angel Herr?ez <[email protected]>
>> > Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] Are others experiencing very broken
>> > javascript and Jmol pages in IE8?
>> > To: <[email protected]>
>> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>> >
>> > Dear Jonathan
>> >
>> > I haven't seen any major problems like you describe -- but I don't
>> > test IE often.
>> > I've had XPsp3 for a long time now,so I would not suspect that.
>> > IE8 is another business, it seems to handle things a bit different,
>> > has a better support for
>> > DOM/CSS standards, and particularly it has a new, better (well, at
>> > least it's something) error
>> > report for javascript, so things that didn't show up in IE7 may now
>> > be made prominent.
>> >
>> > If you can point out to some of your problem pages, I may test them
>> > in my system.
>>
>> Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
>> Chemistry Department [email protected]
>> UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326
>> 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042
>> Oshkosh, WI 54901
>> http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/gutow
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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