OK, I am using Windows 95, and looking at genealogy sites, and asnswering e-mail.
This message Internet Explorer Script Error shows. It will say that an error has occurred in the script, object expected and do I wish to continue on the page.
Of course I wish to continue. I will select yes, and the error will come back.
Does this error message serve any useful function?
Yes it does have a purpose: to show that the programmer of the web site made a mistake, either in fetching someone else’s content or in programming Javascript or Active X. If you constantly receive such an error everytime you try to do something, anything on a page, then avoid that page at all costs. Programmers, and I am one, heed this: make sure you web page don’t generate errors such as the one lindsay described. Test it first, before you post it. And if a javascript applet is causing problems, then scrap it.
Well, then. I’ve seen that message four times today while on the Straight Dope Message Board.
Does this mean to never contact SD again?
Well I would tell you to reboot your computer and see if you still get the errors, but a number of people on this board are out for your blood based on your Wally remarks, so I am going to guess they are going to weigh-in with YES!
Out for my blood? Because I asked who he was? I never knew him, don’t remember reading anything he wrote.
I asked who he was because I don’t know. What is wrong with not knowing and asking?
Nothing. The fault lies in LYING about it. Stop acting like an innocent gal in other fora, and face the music in the appropriate threads.
It depends on what version of IE you are using. If you use IE version 3 (the one that came with W95) you will usually get all kinds of JScript errors. Upgrading to version 4 or 5 will probably solve many of your script errors.
Yeah, and next time post what version of the software you are using…As the person said, you’re probably using one thats way toooooooo old.
It is Windows 95, and the error message shows mostly when I log onto http://www.straightdope.com.
Then don’t log onto http://www.straightdope.com
lindsay, you remind me of that commercial of the guy who says he isn’t a doctor, he just plays one on TV. I don’t think you are a stupid person, you just play one on SDMB. A truly stupid person couldn’t keep up your pace.
Could we please keep the board politics stuff out of GQ?