In article <1h76z75.18zgjgg1de1ktwN%mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mike Rosenberg) wrote:
> Sawney Beane <beadleXX@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I got her to read it. On the phone it was hard to be sure I
understood.
> >
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>
> Well, this sounds very much like it's not an error message at all but
> rather a pop-up ad.
Indeed. Definitely not a javascript error message.
Sawney, if it is indeed a 'pop-up ad', then it is just a new window. So
she shoudl be able to just close that window and then see the original
window beneath that, just as she'd expect. If so, the only problem is
how to avoid those pop-up ads in the future. (My opinion: just get a
better browser. I'd go for iCab 3 <http://www.icab.de/>,
but an older
version of Opera
<http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=mac&ver=6.03>,
or that
Mac OS 9 build of Mozilla
<http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~harunaga/mozilla-macos9/>,
are also options.)
Still curious why one user with the same browser would get this and the
other does not. Communicator offered hardly any configurability (IIRC
you can only switch javascript on/off), so I don't see how Sawney might
have a setting that prevents 'pop-up ads'.
In theory the server could be sending different content, based on the
user's IP address. But it doesn't seem a very likely explanation in this
case.
Another reason for the server to send diffeent users different content
might be cookies. That sounds slightly more likely to me. I honestly
don't remember how to quickly/easily troubelshoot that with Communicator
though. Does it even allow you to tem****arily switch Cookies sup****t off?
Another thought: Sawney, how sure are you that she is in fact requesting
the exact same page as you do? Even 1 single 'minor' typo, and she'd be
requesting something else - something that just might look similar to
what she tries to get at, but isn't the same.
If Communicator's URL field offers one of those awful implementations of
auto-completion, it might even be that she starts typing the correct
URL, and then Communicator 'helpfully' fills in the rest, but
incorrectly - without her realising it.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/%7Etekelenb/>
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