FW: POP-UPS! what to do? [was] Re: Test popup with NS6-C ontinued

[Paul Willoughby]

It just gets weirder...Stripping out the HTML didn't help, so I thought I'd

try writing the script as a function in the HTML page and just call the

function from Flash. This seemed to cure the back button problem I mentioned

in the last post. But also the old style button with the javascript written

in the getURL also now seemed to be working correctly (i had them both in

the same SWF). Curious, I added *just* this line in the head tag of your

original HTML page:


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT> 


And then it worked, no back button 'bug' or warnings of javascript errors :)

I think it might be worth getting someone else to test this IE 5.5 'bug'

just in case it was a quirk of my configuration, although it doesn't look

like it. Maybe IE 5.5 needs a 'warning' it's likely to be having to deal

with some javascript? I dunno, I'm not a JS expert at all.


'fraid I don't have NS6 so I don't know if this extra line might upset it.


hth


paul



> -----Original Message-----

>

From: JGL [infodesignthenet [dot] com (mailto:infodesignthenet [dot] com)]

> Sent: 06 February 2001 13:24 

> Darn, that's weird. Try it after stripping the html. I'm just 

> using IE5, not

> 5.5 and I don't get the error. You'd think we could come up 

> with a pop up

> script that works most every where.

> 

> Thanks Paul and Thorvald

> 

> jgl

> 

> And never forget: be square. It's hip!

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> I had some funny behaviour with this pop-up script in IE 5.5, 

> PC which I'm

> not sure was intended or not. When I load the page it works 

> fine, but if I

> hit my browser back button once it stops working. If I hit 

> the back button

> again it starts working again. I also had a javascript error warning:

> 

> Line: 1

> Char: 1

> Error: 'location' is undefined

> Code: 0

> URL: http://www.designthenet.com/tutes/popup2/popup2.html#

> 

> Is this error because Flash inserts the javascript getURL in 

> the <!-- URL's

> used in the movie--> part of the HTML document?