I did see that the javascript was a bit much. I have no idea why they really feel it is necessary. I guess they need to justify their salaries.
BUT, I still don't understand why netscape works fine when run directly on the server (behind the firewall) but netscape crashes when running via a remote X session from a work station. Joel On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:26:18PM -0500, Ian wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
