On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:04:50 -0400, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Tim Slattery <
[email protected]>
wrote:
|
|>Apparently javascript now fails to "run." Conditions: have just
|>updated to jre1.5.0.07.
|
|That enables you to run Java applets. Java has nothing whatsoever to
|do with Javascript, they are completely different things.
|
|> Indicators: gmail (one of many sites)
|>indicates that I don't have javascript enabled - but it is. Internet
|>explorer just "sits there" when I visit other sites; firefox usually
|>attempts to run but incurs many error.
|
|Javascript is implemented separately for IE and Firefox. Disabling it
|in one browser would have no effect on the other. In Firefox it's
|controlled from Tools|Options, click "Content" in the toolbar at the
|top. There are separate check boxes for "Enable Java" and "Enable
|Javascript". As I said earlier these are totally different things, the
|setting for one does not affect the other at all. And neither setting
|in Firefox will have any effect on IE.
|
|Opposite the "Javascript" checkbox in Firefox is an "Advanced..."
|button. Clicking that allows you to make some choices about what
|you'll allow Javascript to do within Firefox.
|
|Errors on Firefox's Javascript console are the result of errors in the
|Javascript code embedded in the web page. The error was made by the
|person who wrote the page, you haven't done anything wrong.
|
|I think you turn IE's Javascript settings on and off in the "Security"
|tab of Tools|Internet Options. (My employer has us locked out of that,
|so I can't look at it.)
Ok on difference. BUT! - what else has changed that has everything
screwed up? One day all is well and then along comes critical
updates, you installthem and then nothing works any longer. Surely
the "scripting" engine in XP isn't at fault. All I can do is relate
what has happened. Soooooooo, I guess no one else is having this
problem? One other tiny bit of info is that Thunderbird email client
now also refuses to read my mail at gmail.com - but I can read it with
my browser although under restricred conditions (html versus
javascript) .. the email error message is that the gmail server won't
accept my username/password although they are both correct
(guaranteed!)
