Re: Orpheus Home page

On 1 May 2013, Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
> On 1 May 2013 "Learning Partners" <lp.books@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> > Can't get javascript to work at all though (ticked on in choices
> > but....)
>
> Seems to work here. Have you made sure that you have a JavaScript
> version? :-)
>
> http://javatester.org/javascript.html will tell you whether JavaScript
> is working or not. Here I see:
>
> JavaScript IS WORKING in your web browser
>
> Your web browser supports JavaScript version 2.2
>
> Every web browser identifies itself to websites with a character
> string called the "user agent". The User Agent string for your web
> browser is:
>
> NetSurf/3.0 (RISC OS)

John mentions the 'new release' which presumably means NS 3.0. Although
the javatester response above mentions NetSurf/3.0, the actual response
when using the NS 3.0 release, is a blank Test Results window, if JS is
working, and a fail notice if not.

The extended javatester response above presumably results from JS
improvements in NS #1096, as compared with NS 3.0. For comparison, the
javatester response to the earlier NS #1083 is

JavaScript IS WORKING in your web browser

Your web browser supports JavaScript version 2.2

Your web browser was not detected as being either Opera, Firefox,
Internet Explorer, Chrome or a BlackBerry

so it seems that work is on-going in this area.

As mentioned in another post, there is a bug in NS 3.0 which causes the
JS setting in Choices to be lost when NS is quit/re-started. This means
that it is necessary to re-set 'Disable JavaScript' when NS 3.0 is run.

Tony