For some obsure (at least to me), everytime I try to bring up Javascript window, I get a completely blank (white screen) and the little note at the bottom of the window reads “Done”.
I am on an amd athlon, XP Home SP2.
Why is it doing this, and how to I fix it?
It is driving me nuts - sometime I can cut and paste the URL from the blank window, and bring it up, mostly, I can’t.
Please note that this is the latest of 13 PCs that I have built - I generally get along nicely, but this one’s stumped me.
Not so much notorious for not getting along as that XP doesn’t come with it standard since Sun managed to sue Microsoft for it. So you’ll have to install java yourself, on XP, always.
Javascript, despite the name, is NOT Java - it is an entirely different critter - I don’t know who/where/when it originated, but it is, IIRC, NOT Sun (from whom I’ve download a whole buch of stuff.
JavaScript was named entirely for marketing reasons: Java was taking off and Netscape, the people behind JavaScript, hoped to catch some of the buzz. There is no connection and the languages are, in fact, extremely different.
No connection is overstating it a little. The way I understand it, Sun currently ‘owns’ the language and collaborated with Netscape in 1995 to create it.
Not true on both counts. Java is a product of Sun Microsystems, Javascript has no Sun connection at all and standardization efforts are controlled by ECMA.
Trying to get back to the question, where are you trying to run javascript? What are you trying to do with it??
One thing that pops to mind is that IE with windows XP2 is by default (for some reason) EXTREMELY picky about what you can do with any web page opened from the hard drive or CDs – the default is ‘no active content allowed’, which would presumably rule out javascript running.
Why exactly they’ve ruled that people should be more careful with local content on their computer than with pages that are out on the web and have who-knows-what kind of scripts running… I couldn’t tell you.
I’m just clicking on links on web pages - I expect to see something (product details, video clips, ordering options, etc.) - but all I get is the originally-described white (empty) page. This occurs under both IE 6.x and Mozilla (whatever).
I have set the options/preferences as indicated on several pages, rebooted a few hundred time since than, and still no javascript content displays.
when this happens are you getting the blank page in a new window, or the original window? if it’s the original window, can you copy/paste the new link info from the location bar for us?
can you give us a specific example of a page & link that isn’t working?
No, this board runs on PHP (as Usram points out) which is entirely server-side, as opposed to JavaScript which is entirely client-side.
That is, no PHP code is ever sent to the browsers, not least because browsers don’t usually ship with PHP interpreters. JavaScript, on the other hand, is sent out packaged inside the webpage and it’s up to the browser to do something with it.
There are some ways to blur the lines between client-side and server-side, but the client-side portion of AJAX, for example, is JavaScript.
