Re: Javascript error in AOL browser

by Kathleen Anderson <kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com>

 Date:  Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:11:22 -0500
 To:  Heike Koester + Stefan Schulz <hksts(at)voyager.co.nz>,
hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  co
  todo: View Thread, Original
Hi Stefan:
I clicked on the second link in your message: 
http://stadterhebung.virtualave.net/denkmal/erz2.html
in IE5, and I got "A runtime Error has occurred - do you wish to debug? 
Line 238 - Error: 'style' is not an object."
I did a View Source, but nothing jumped out at me as the cause.




At 07:19 AM 02/02/2001 +1300, Heike Koester + Stefan Schulz wrote:
>Dear fellow designers,
>
>I must admit that i'm not the perfect Javascript guy, but this one
>pussles me a bit (specially because I don't have access to AOL myself -
>my client does!
>
>The site navigation is worked around a script pulled from Netscape
>Designers site (menu.js) and lets you create hierarchical menus on mouse
>
>events - I used onmouseover. I did not change anything inside this but
>simply created the various menus I needed throughout the site and have
>all the initialization of the menus as well as the image preloading done
>
>in a second external script. All goes pretty well local as well as from
>the server using MS4 and NS4, but my client is using the AOL browser and
>
>complains about javascript errors popping up. It includes different
>error messages and not consistent over the pages, but mostly errors like
>
>"on_worringen not defined". I guess this is a timing problem, right?
>
>I would appreciate any hints towards solving this issue, as we are in
>the last days before 'going live'
>This is the url:  http://stadterhebung.virtualave.net
>One of the most often 'offending' page:
>http://stadterhebung.virtualave.net/denkmal/erz2.html
>(sorry but page contents is in german)
>
>I believe it has nothing to do with virtualave, but if you want I can
>pull the site over to my server and try here....
>
>--
>Best regards
>
>Stefan Schulz
>Professional Web Solutions           http://www.pws.co.nz

~ Kathleen Anderson
Spider Web Woman Designs
mailto:kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/

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