Re: JS quirk in IE5?

Hi,

Thanks for trying, as I had said in a later email to the list, the problem
does not occur when the page is accessed from the web. However when I browse
locally, (from the harddisk that is) I get the source-view of the page when
I refresh the page.

Quite similar to how Netscape displays the src in the main browser window,
if the server does not set the proper mime-type.

I'm intrigued as to why this is happening, I've tested the page on

Win98, IE4

Win 95 SR2 IE5.00.2314.1003

Win95/98 Netscape 4+

Win NT IE4

Debian Linux Netscape 4+

and the problem occurs only in IE5, but then IE5 is curious in that way.
Infact I had this problem on IE5, where my mouse pointer used to disappear
sometimes in the IE5 window. Later after many posts to the MS support pages,
I found somewhere in the MS KB that IE5 would not be compatible with an MS
Mouse Driver ver 1.10, and indeed I had ver 1.1! So I would have to download
ver3.00, which was ONLY 13MB (wow, some mouse driver!).

So you see MSIE is quite dicey in that aspect. If all of you aren't having
any problems refreshing the page from a local disk, then it's something
specific to my machine.

Thanks,

-Srini

----- Original Message -----
From: Phillip Perry <info(at)inter-design.net>
To: Srinivasan Ramakrishnan <srinivar(at)md3.vsnl.net.in>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: JS quirk in IE5?


| I have IE 5 and tried all the things you mentioned and I couldn't find any
| errors. It's quite a neat effect.
|
| Phil
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Srinivasan Ramakrishnan" <srinivar(at)md3.vsnl.net.in>
| To: <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
| Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 12:31 PM
| Subject: JS quirk in IE5?
|
|
| > Hi,
| >
| > I've written a script that rotates thru a list of images, displaying
them
| > one at a time, but let's say you have a 3X3 table (that's 9 images) in
the
| > HTML, the script moves the 9th image off the page & moves all the images
| > down one spot, and pushes in a new Image at position 1.
| >
| > The script is fine, infact it's as cross browser as I can get coz, it
| > doesn't use a lot of DHTML api, or even HTML api for that matter, I 've
| only
| > used document.images[...] array, so it works on all browsers that I've
| > tested. [IE4, NN 4+ on Win 98,95,NT, Debian Linux NN4+  ] (Yipee!)
| >
| > Now, to the problem, when I refresh the page (F5, "Refresh button",
| Ctrl-R)
| > I get the source of the page, and not the page. But when I click the
"Go!"
| > button, or click on the address bar, and hit "enter", the page is
reloaded
| > without a hitch. The best part is, I don't have this problem on IE4 [and
| > this isn't a typo!].
| >
| > IE4 to IE5 > what went wrong?
| >
| > The script is at http://personal.vsnl.com/cheeni/album.html
| >
| > Cheers,
| > -Srini
| >
| >
|
|

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