More test results: 1) This example definitely will not work in IE 8 (probably not any other version either) because the code for generating new div's uses the element.parentNode attribute to figure out which element to add the new div to. It appears that the .parentNode attribute is not supported by IE (it appears to be in the original DOM/javascript specification, unless I misunderstand). Anyway, something different will have to be done to get this to work with IE.
2) It also works in Safari on windows (and thus probably Chrome, since I think they both use the same Webkit). 3) An interesting note: in my testing IE 8 was 4 - 10x slower than Safari and Firefox. 4) A note about the way MS makes programs that everybody else should avoid: I mentioned that IE 8 seemed to break a whole bunch of my old pages that included javascript. The reason they didn't work is that you have to tell IE to run javascript in two separate places (you can't just acknowledge the warning when it asks you if it is OK to run the scripts). You also have to turn on the scripts in tools > internet options > security > custom level ..., then turn on Active Scripting and some other stuff. If it is this hard to set up your program for things most people expect to be standard, I think you have real problems. Thus always try to make sure there is only one central place where settings can get changed, and that dialogs that purport to change things actually do. Jonathan On Oct 3, 9:38 pm, Jonathan Gutow <gu...@uwosh.edu> wrote: > For those interested I've completed some more testing... > 1) The example included in the .zip archive works on Linux (Ubuntu) > with Firefox. > 2) Windows XP SP3 + IE7/8 seems to break most pages that include > javascript. I cannot get this example to work with that combination > and many of my old pages which worked in windows XP with IE7 before I > updated to SP3 are now broken as well. I think Microsoft now has some > serious problems with standards compliance. Or do I just have a > broken Windows XP installation? > > Jonathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
