I have a rather simple script but in IE it keeps stopping it with the little prompt up top "To help protect your security, IE has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could acess your computer."
This is annoying as each time I would say close or reopen the window it will reprompt. This is driving my professsor insane and he says that sites he goes on this never happens to him so hes convinced its my code, I think he just has wierd settings but I can't convince him otherwise and the instruction to turn off the bar don't work.
Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
word.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Unless of course my professor doesn't use Mozilla, and insists my site be compatible on both, oh what a shocker.
Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
Yes, that is actually pretty shocking. Does he also insist your site be compatible with Arachne as well?
IE is an outdated, severely buggy, terrible browser. If your professor insists you use it and nothing else, maybe it's time to enroll in a different class? (At my college, all the computers use Firefox as their default browser)
Either that, or go over your code and eliminate anything that IE can't handle.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dogbreath: Yes, that is actually pretty shocking. Does he also insist your site be compatible with Arachne as well?
IE is an outdated, severely buggy, terrible browser. If your professor insists you use it and nothing else, maybe it's time to enroll in a different class? (At my college, all the computers use Firefox as their default browser)
Either that, or go over your code and eliminate anything that IE can't handle.
As to Blayne's specific concern, I'm not positive if this holds the answer, but it might. It looks like you might be able to solve it by having the Java Script as an external file or changing the html tags from embed and applet to object, but I haven't really read the article. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Just tell him to add your page to his Trusted Sites list in IE. If he's on campus, it's possible that a campus-wide Group Policy might prevent this, but it's worth a shot.
And while the new version of IE is neither outdated nor seriously terrible, that has no impact on what I'm about to say: Dogbreath, failing to code for IE when designing a webpage is, quite frankly, a sign of a terribly immature web designer.
Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
Hmm, maybe I'm letting my biases show, but... if IE designers make arbitrary and nonsensical changes to what content it can and can't process, and releases new versions that are less compatible than older ones, it serves IE users right that certain pages won't work. Web designers shouldn't have to cripple their projects to serve the needs of a moronic browser.
That being said, if Blayne's professor insists on him writing websites for IE, he needs to change his code to work with IE, not expect IE to miraculously be able to run it. Because it won't. It's like buying size 32 pants for a 500 lb obese man, and then complaining to Hatrack that he won't put them on.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:maybe I'm letting my biases show, but...
Yes. Yes, you are. And if you think IE8 is less compatible than, say, IE6, you haven't been listening.
Posted by manji (Member # 11600) on :
Really, the only way to answer the thread's query is to write good code. If you can't do that, steal it off of someone from the internet. This is where Google comes in handy.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Blayne, ignore the IE bashers. Go to Tools, Internet Options, Security. If you're having problems with the scripting on the computer you're working on, or the same network, click on Intranet and then Custom Settings.
There's a whole slew of stuff in there that you can change. I recommend setting most of it to Prompt where possible, and not to Enable.
Incidentally, there's a setting that says "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting". Believe it or not, Word and Excel aren't marked as safe for scripting. So if you're ever needing to automate one of those from a webpage, you'll need to set that to Prompt or Enable (I use Prompt).
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson:
quote:maybe I'm letting my biases show, but...
Yes. Yes, you are. And if you think IE8 is less compatible than, say, IE6, you haven't been listening.
I recommend setting your pages to run in IE7 (or IE6) mode. Or even putting that in the headers in IIS. Because IE8 is going to be a disaster. Their "compatibility" stuff is going to kill a ton of websites out there by getting rid of things like expressions in styles.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
The only time I've seen that prompt in IE for javascript is when I've opened a web page from a local drive instead of via http. The local zone can have more restrictive security settings than the Internet zone.
If you can test hosting it on a web server instead of using the local zone it might help.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
It's true. That comics page I showed you before? When I run it from my hard drive, I get the Yellow Bar of Annoyance at the top. But when I run it from my website, no YBA.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Interesting. That could very well be the case, that or the JS being encoded in the html file and not being a separate JS file either sounds like good solutions.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Again, if he just adds your page to his Trusted Sites, he won't see the warning.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Tom,
I realize file location might not be applicable to this situation, although Blayne's responses suggest it might be, but can you add an individual local file to the trusted sites? It doesn't look like doing so is possible from what I see on Google.
I can't check easily because my company uses group policy to prevent us from adding trusted sites.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:can you add an individual local file to the trusted sites?
He's almost certainly to be viewing it on his local webserver instance (and if he's not, I doubt his competence). All he has to do is add the IP to Trusted Sites, leaving localhost to local, then hit it from the IP or the DNS alias.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Don't you already doubt his competence since he has a vague suspicion that something, but he doesn't know what, about the javascript is the problem? Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I open the site by 2 clicking it from the hard drive, today I just tested it by uploading it to my linux server into my public_html folder and no orange bar!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
*facepalm* Someday I'm going to stop overestimating you and your teachers.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Your professor seriously didn't understand that running JS locally in IE produces the ActiveX warning?
What school is this, again?
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: I open the site by 2 clicking it from the hard drive, today I just tested it by uploading it to my linux server into my public_html folder and no orange bar!
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you are your own episode of The Office
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
John Abbott College, we're also the only English speaking college in Quebec.
Well to be fair my teacher isn't a web developer, hes my STAGE supervisor who generally teaches Algorithms and Linux scripting, web programming is another teachers thing.
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