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Subject: Re: (most probably Java support missing)

Author: James Swafford

Date: 15:55:00 03/19/04

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On March 19, 2004 at 18:07:01, Mike S. wrote:

>On March 19, 2004 at 17:21:49, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I cannot access your site anymore, Sarah.
>>
>>It's not that I get an error message. I don't get any.
>>
>>It's just that I'm using Mozilla (under Linux) and that the menu at the left
>>does not seem to be compatible with this brower: when the mouse hovers on the
>>menu the options are colored with a white background, but clicking on them does
>>absolutely nothing.
>
>I guess the page requires Java support. This was an issue with my new notebook
>too, where I have WinXP at (for the first time) and discovered, that the Windows
>installation does not include Java support anymore. I.e., my online PGN viewer
>didn't work.
>
>I downloaded Java support from sun: http://www.java.com/
>

My guess is it's a javascript compatibility issue.  There are
many cases where javascript will work for one browser but
not another.

I have the latest JRE...

>It's not very large and works like before, with control options the previous
>(win) version didn't offer.
>
>When I access Sarah's site, the Java symbol appears in the tool bar, indicating
>that Java is active. Although, I'm not 100% sure if it cooperates somehow with
>javascript code too (I don't think so), so it may (?) be a javascript issue
>rather than a Java issue.
>
>I don't think it's  related to the Internet Explorer security settings, because
>if it was, people who have programs with that site, must have problems with many
>page's navigation. IMO normal surfing is impossible with javascript deactivated.
>
>Regards,
>Mike Scheidl



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