Site Problems?

[swestrup]

Could a fellow firefox user check something out for me? At http://www.microbytes.com, on the left-hand side of the main screen is a selection labelled 'system designer' Clicking on it brings up a menu. For me, none of those menu items do anything at all, but the same page works fine under Internet Explorer. Is is the fault of the page, or is there something borked in my copy of firefox?
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Addendum: Thanks for all the help! Its fixed now, as I posted here.

Comments

[swestrup]

I wonder about that. I have a popup thing that pops up (dumb interface!) to tell me its stopped a popup, and "should I let it through?". But on this page, I get nothing. Then again, my Firefox has been wonky lately, so it may be me.

[ellenk.livejournal.com]

It's working fine for me in Firefox 1.0 but then I never block pop-ups (I'm just a sucker for punishment, I guess)

[designergirl.livejournal.com]

Works fine for me and I'm using Firefox v1.0! =)

BTW - the menu is a Java Script, so maybe you don't have the right settings for Java in Firefox or you haven't got a version of Java that runs the menu correctly.

[jane]

works fine for me as well. :) sucks that yours is wonky. :( I <3 Firefox!

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[swestrup]

Actually, javascript and java are totally unrelated. I have no idea why they called javascript by that name (its official name is 'Ecmascript', but no one uses that.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

Works fine on Epiphany (Gecko based). Did you actually click on it ? :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

Java makes good for marketing people....

Sun Java Desktop System is actually a Linux distro. Nothing related to Java at all. Another proof that marketdroids are really dumb.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Foul marketing evil!

Reminds me of the time Microsoft tried to turn DNS into "Digital Nervous System".

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Works in my copy of Mozilla. It does try to do a popup, so it could be something related to that.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

EcmaScript came after JavaScript and is slightly different (they changed a few details when standardizing it). The name, as others have said, is entirely marketing-driven, I'd guess.

[ketherian.livejournal.com]

The last time I was there, I had a problem with the site. If you select everything, does the whole window (white space as well as words) become selected (or at least all the parts of the menu)? If it's selecting white-space as well as words then there's something laying over the menu and you cannot select the menu items.

This can be caused by a malformed layer overlaying the source text without an exit or collapse button (usually flash, but javascript can be a culprit too). I just visited it today and everything seems to be working.

Hope this helps.

[designergirl.livejournal.com]

=P

[sps.livejournal.com]

I had thought that the original implementation of javascript ran on top of the java runtime - it was a scripting language written in java. Ecmascript is the standardised (by ecma...) version of javascript - it differs from javascript in the same sort of obscure way that 8859-1 differs from the DEC character set.