Re: [Jmol-users] Are others experiencing very broken javascript and Jmol pages in IE8?

[Jonathan G. <gu...@uw...>]

Angel,
	Thanks for the offer.  I've found the problem for web pages off of  
servers.  It appears that (as is often the case in MS products) you  
have to turn things on (and off) in more than one place to get them to  
work.  In IE 8 just choosing to allow active content when warned (ie  
Javascript and ActiveX) does not work.  You also have to go to Tools >  
Internet Options > Security Tab > Custom Level... button and then make  
sure that "Active Scripting" and "Scripting of Applets" is enabled.  I  
would guess many people will not be able to get pages with applets and  
javascript working in IE8.

	I haven't found how to get it to behave for local files.

	Two comments:
1) IE8 appears to be 4 - 10 times slower than Firefox.
2) IE8 appears to have a nice developer's tools for debugging.   
However, on my test machine it is so slow, that I don't think I will  
have the patience to use it.

Jonathan
On Oct 4, 2009, at 7:27 AM, jmo...@li...  
wrote:

> From: Angel Herr?ez <ang...@ua...>
> Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] Are others experiencing very broken
> 	javascript and	Jmol pages in IE8?
> To: <jmo...@li...>
> Message-ID: <4AC...@an...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> Dear Jonathan
>
> I haven't seen any major problems like you describe -- but I don't  
> test IE often.
> I've had XPsp3 for a long time now,so I would not suspect that.
> IE8 is another business, it seems to handle things a bit different,  
> has a better support for
> DOM/CSS standards, and particularly it has a new, better (well, at  
> least it's something) error
> report for javascript, so things that didn't show up in IE7 may now  
> be made prominent.
>
> If you can point out to some of your problem pages, I may test them  
> in my system.

                          Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
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