Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:13:43PM +0100, andy wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:59:22PM +0100, andy wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though...
Oh I will, trust me!! ;-) Just as a point of fact however, Java is
supposed to be OS independent isn't it. I'd look stoopid if I go spouting
off on something that is untrue ... not good for my credibility
I guess its supposed to be, but how well that works is debatable. My
very rough understanding is that some of the stuff is _not_ platform
independent. just to refresh my memory, which JRE are you running?
A
My version is sun-java6-jre (apparently arch independent).
I was able to capture some error code when accessing the site. This is the
result of my attempt to call
javascript:parent.chat_applet_frame.document.chatapplet.openRoom1()
Error: node : TypeError: Value undefined (result of expression
parent.chat_applet_frame.document.chatapplet.openRoom1) is not an object.
Cannot be called.
I don't much about this kind of thing, but I'd say that this appears quite
obvious that the fault is on the site side rather than on my side ... except
this is where I spoofed the user agent string, so don't know if that
confused things a bit.
The errors you describe are Javascript errors. And Javascript has got
nothing to do with Java... (apologies if that sounds like I'm offending
you. I'm not).
Karl & John
Thank you for your replies.
Karl, no offence taken :-) I'm the first to admit that I am a bit of a
dummy when it comes to computers: I admire how they work and the folk
who code all of those programmes, but I got stuck trying to work my way
through Python's OOP and classes and although love the symmetry of
Scheme and Lisp can do precious little with either except very basic
maths. So really, no need to apologise!
If these are javascript errors as you both suggest - why does it appear
that other people are still able to access and work with the applets?
In any event, I have had a long discussion with the course tutor and he
has told me that they will be looking at this over the course of the
year. Because of the technical hitch, I have had to withdraw from this
module and will pick it up next year, so I'll see if he was just blowing
smoke!
Thanks all for your input on this issue.
Best wishes
Andy
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answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
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