RE: email bug corrupts scripts in OE [was: Re: FLASH: JavaScript Plug-in Detection]

[Jason Brown]

what i usually do is package script as a .js file, and send them that way.

there's less chance of someon screwing up in other way then, like copying

your signature file into the script tags (yes i've seen it done)


-----Original Message-----

From: Lady Wistfulee [

wistfuleehawaii [dot] rr [dot] com (mailto:wistfuleehawaii [dot] rr [dot] com)

]

Sent: 28 September 1999 10-35

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: email bug corrupts scripts in OE [was: Re: FLASH:

JavaScript Plug-in Detection]



When I started, I was just reading them, then archiving them & hadn't tried

using any.  I was taking tutorials & studying before I tried any forays into

the Javascript domain.  When I did & got errors, I didn't understand why or

what.  I sent a message to one such person whose script I tried, & he & I

together discovered this bug.  I spent weeks corresponding with M$ before I

finally got them to admit it was a bug.  It was only when I had "proof" out

of their "electronic lips" that I passed the info to others.  I guess I am

the only one on the list who uses OE5, or the others aren't as much of a

newbie as I am & automatically fixed them without thinking about it.

much alohas from Oahu,

C�line Kapiolani

a.k.a. Lady Wistfulee

--Mistakes are their own instructors.

                                         --Horace

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Jason Brown <

jason [dot] brownpres [dot] co [dot] uk

>

[snip]



didn't anyone guess when theybused the scripts and saw the error? didn't

anyone guess when they read the scripts?????


-----Original Message-----

From: Lady Wistfulee [

wistfuleehawaii [dot] rr [dot] com (mailto:wistfuleehawaii [dot] rr [dot] com)

]

Sent: 28 September 1999 08-14

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: email bug corrupts scripts in OE [snip]

I agree! To those of you who use Outlook Express (like I do, until I find

another free/low-cost email program that I can use my HTML stationery with),

I discovered a bug that corrupts scripts that are written out in an email.

As a newbie, I didn't realize it until I got "good enough" to read a script

& know what I was looking at.  When an email contains a double slash " // "

with anything written after it, (like anything commented out in a script!)

the word "file" with a colon " : " is added.   Therefore, " // " becomes "

file:// ". 

[snip]



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