Shawn Dow

Hi:

I am having a little problem with the Javascripts I
use on my site. I do hope you can help.

Here is the link to my site. 

[URL]

All of my pages are the same, except for the sitemap
which does not import the drop down links.

I am using the present javascripts:

[Ed. DO NOT use this script. Conditional compilation is nonstandard
garbage. This should not be used.]

[URL]/xmlhttp.js

function include(xUrl,xId) {

  var xmlhttp = false;

  /*@cc_on @*/

  /*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5)

  // JScript gives us Conditional compilation, we can
  // cope with old IE versions.
  // and security blocked creation of the objects.

  try {
    xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
   } catch (e) {
      try {
        xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
      } catch (E) {
        xmlhttp = false;
      }
   }

  /*@end @*/

  if (!xmlhttp && typeof XMLHttpRequest!='undefined')
{
    xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  }

  xmlhttp.open("GET", xUrl,true);
  xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {

          if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
                document.getElementById(xId).innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
          }
  }
  xmlhttp.send(null)

}

....and.....

[URL]/drop_down.js

// JavaScript Document

startList = function() {
if (document.all&&document.getElementById) {
navRoot = document.getElementById("nav");
for (i=0; i<navRoot.childNodes.length; i++) {
node = navRoot.childNodes[i];
if (node.nodeName=="LI") {
node.onmouseover=function() {
this.className+=" over";
  }
  node.onmouseout=function() {
  this.className=this.className.replace(" over", "");
   }
   }
  }
 }
}
window.onload=startList;

.....and a small bit written in my pages like so.....

<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- hide from none JavaScript Browsers 

Image1= new Image(1,70)
Image1.src = "gradient.jpg"

Image2= new Image(50,50)
Image2.src = "light.jpg"

Image3= new Image(150,60)
Image3.src = "leg.jpg"

Image4= new Image(120,70)
Image4.src = "mini[name].jpg"

Image5= new Image(550,70)
Image5.src = "[name].gif"
// End Hiding -->
</script>

When I am on a given page on the site and I click a
link that takes me out of the site and then I hit the
"back" button to return, my drop down menu won't work
(they are on the right side of the page), until I hit
the refresh button. You can also see the "Error On
Page" message in the status bar at this point. The
sitemap page contains ordinary links not imported with
Java.

I am using the "xmlhttp.js" to import some html into
my page, since my server does not provide Server Side
Includes. The "drop_down.js" is for the drop-down
links that the previous javascript imports.

Also, can I put the script for preloading images into
an alternate .js file, or does it need to be in the
actual HTML page? I use XHTML throughout the site and
all of my pages have been validated at W3.org, as well
as the CSS files.

Your help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Shawn Dow

P.S. I will post a link to your site if you like. Let
me know.

Hi:

Thanks for the quick reply. The version of IE I am
using is Version 6.0.2800.1106. I click the following
links:

1. Index page, click ENTER
2. Links
3. Angels Index (under Galleries & Tributes)
3. Click the [brand] link at the bottom of the page.
5. I click back.
The menu is there, but when I place my cursor on it,
the links will still not "drop-down". I refresh the
page and they work again.

I do not believe my wife has any special installations
in the toolbar. We do have a CD Wizard, a couple of
virus programs, a firewall, [brand], [brand].

I have connected to the internet with the other
browsers I have tested the site with. They are:

1. Fire Fox Version: 1.0.4
2. Netscape Navigator Version: 8.0.2 Based on Firefox
3. Opera Version: 8.01

The problem doesn't seem to be happening in the above
three. It seems to be a problem with Internet
Explorer. I should also mention that the Javascript
"xmlhttp.js" has some info within the page in order to
"call" the menu into it. Again, this is like Server
Side Includes. Just a "client side includes" for ease
of updates.

When I click on the [brand] link and then go back to
angels.html, I still see the "Error On Page", but I am
also noticing something else. When I place my cursor
on the menu, the first two links actually work. "Home"
and "Sitemap". The status bar says: "Shortcut to
index.html" and "Shortcut to sitemap.html" and when I
place my cursor on "links", the status bar says
"Shortcut to links.html". All fine. Below that, when I
place the cursor on every link I get: "Shortcut to
link.html#" except for "[brand]", "[brand]",
"Guestbook" and "Contact".

I decided that since the "Ultimate DVD" link seems to
be okay, I would click that one. It did indeed take me
to the proper page. When I got there, I clicked on the
[brand] link at the bottom and when I came back, again
the links would not work. However, this time, when I
placed my cursor on the drop-down links, I would get
the message "Shortcut to ultimatedvd.html#". This is
the same in all of the browsers and the only one that
has a real problem is IE. The links will not pop-out.

<script type="text/javascript">
include('navigation.html',"menu");
</script>

This calls the "xmlhttp.js" which imports the menu
from an alternate page:

"navigation.html."

I am still confused as to where the problem is
exactly. Since it seems that the links that refuse to
work are all the ones that pop out, then the problem
could be between "drop_down.js" and IE? I went online
with the other three browsers (FF, NN and Opera) and
there was no problems at all. Everything worked. I do
not have any pop-up blocking in IE. I am not using a
proxy server. I am not aware as to whether the server
uses any kind of proxy. But, since the other three
browsers had no problems online, I think that could be
ruled out.

It may be some setting I have in Internet Explorer? It
is possible I suppose. This is an area where my wife
knows more than I do. I will ask her about it. At any
rate, I hope the info I have provided here will give
you a clearer picture. Thanks for the help.

Shawn Dow

Hi:

I took a look at the settings for my browser. Under
"Internet Options" I clicked "Advanced". Then I saw an
option called "Display a Notification About Every
Script Error". I clicked that, went to site online,
clicked the appropriate links and got this message:

"Problems with this webpage might prevent it from
being dispayed properly or functioning properly. In
the future, you can display this message by
double-clicking the warning icon displayed in the
status bar."

I have decided to leave the "Always display this
message when a page contains errors" checked for
obvious reasons.

Here are the details:
Line: 7
Char: 11
Error: Object required
Code: 0
URL: http....

I should point out that this is the exact same error
message for every page I try. The problem is obviously
repeated again and again. The message states "Object
Required" but what object is I do not know.

I have a lot of other info below that you may or may
not have looked at. Thanks to your questions I was
able to track this down. I hope you may know what the
"object" is. Here are the first lines of my webpage.
Is this the place the error message is referring to?


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"
xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Who's Who Of The [name] Show - Page
1</title>

<meta name="description" content="Who's Who Of The
[name] Show, The [name] Show" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Who's Who Of The [name]
Show" />
<meta name="author" content="threerandot" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="print.css" media="print" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="angels01.css" media="screen" />
<script src="xmlhttp.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="drop_down.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css"></style>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- hide from none JavaScript Browsers 

Image1= new Image(1,70)
Image1.src = "gradient.jpg"

Image2= new Image(50,50)
Image2.src = "light.jpg"

Image3= new Image(150,60)
Image3.src = "leg.jpg"

Image4= new Image(120,70)
Image4.src = "mini[brand].jpg"

Image5= new Image(550,70)
Image5.src = "[brand].gif"
// End Hiding -->
</script>
</head>
<body>


Thanks, 
Shawn Dow