Joel Hammer wrote: > > I have a two remote work stations, one a diskless client, and one a > regular linux box, which log onto my server and which run remote X > sessions. That is to say, all software runs on the server, the client > just runs the X server. > > When using a remote work station, while trying to log onto the comcast > home page with netscape 6.2, netscape just terminates abruptly. This > happens with any user. Running netscape from an xterm window shows no > error messages. The program just abruptly terminates. Any user, sitting at > the server, can access http://comcast.net without trouble with netscape. > This exact same behavior is exhibited by mozilla 0.9.8 and netscape 4.77.
It has something to do with the page...not the browser under X. In windows...the page loads to completion but never actually displays anything other than a white screen...under linux it crashes. Use a browser that will load the page and have a look at the code...it's about 50% javascript...I'd guess that's the trouble. There are javascript calls that work flawlessly under IE and kill NS and vice versa...possibly the case here. Comcast need to relax with the javascript. It's the same page that crashed your machines a week ago, and will continue to crash the browser until Comcast spends more time developing pages that aren't aimed as the IE masses. So in short, you're right, it's a browser problem...at the web developer level. Kinda like blaming an x86 machine for barfing on and not running code from another architecture. BTW, even lynx spewed several errors during the loading of the page. -- Linux SxS [http://sxs.homeip.net/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
