Richard Forth wrote:
> Below is the code from the main file, can anyone look at it and tell
> me why it does not load under firefox (even under windows)?
It uses VBScript, which as far as I know is not supported at all by
Firefox (if it is then it's not a default or pre-installed option).
You should be able to do similar things with JavaScript which is
cross-platform. VBScript is proprietary and ties you to the one browser,
thus making it a poor choice for anything web based (ie anything
requiring a browser, ie generally a poor choice for anything!)
As to why nobody else supports VBS I don't know, but I don't think
there's any compelling reason to use VBS for a project unless it is to
provide glue between your application and stuff like ActiveX objects
which are also not cross-platform, so supporting the language would only
solve a small part of the problem.
Note that IE runs pretty well under Wine:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
.. and I would guess that your sample code would therefore work on Linux
that way.
However, I'd recommend finding tutorials that use JavaScript instead.
The whole concept of Ajax that's taking over the planet is based on
using asynchronous server calls using XML and Javascript, so I's guess
that the XML support in JS is pretty strong.
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