Re: Are YOU a Chav?

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:33:28 GMT, Stephen Glynn
<stephen.glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

>hummingbird wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:08:53 GMT, Stephen Glynn

>>>>>>You could try answering the questions before pressing the button.
>>>>>>It works wonders.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>What questions? I can get all the other links in the sidebar (Posh
>>>>>Test, Drunk Test etc) to work, but it won't open up the Chav Test for
>>>>>me. I've got javascript turned on and I've had a look at the html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Doesn't need javascript.
>>>>
>>>
>>>It does.
>>
>>
>> hhmm. I hesitated before writing that, then went ahead because I don't
>> have java installed on my machine. Maybe it uses a basic java
>> scripting engine that comes with Windows?
>>
>>
>>>I don't know what browser you're using, obviously, but take a
>>>look at the code behind http://www.itcanwait.com/content/view/20/2/
>>
>>
>> I use Avant (which runs off the back of IE).
>> The code seems to contain "javascript" several times. But it can't
>> require Java (download FOC) since I don't have it installed.
>>
>
>No. It doesn't require Java, but it requires javascript, which
>something completely different. That is part of IE.
>>
>>>I think there must be something about the HTML that Firefox doesn't
>>>like. It's a lot less forgiving of some errors than is IE.
>>
>>
>> Does Firefox allow you to switch on/off various options - eg IE/Avant
>> allow you to switch off 'scripting java applets' etc. This may be a
>> problem.
>> Are java applets blocked by your firewall? Do you run a HOSTS file
>> blocking IP addresses? Do you run 'spywareblaster' which adds large
>> numbers of IP addresses to your browser exclusion lists?
>>
>
>Yes, Firefox allows you to turn off lava (which I've got turned on).

Can you also turn off volcanoes? ;-)

>It also allows you to turn javascript on and off by each site.
>
>It's not a lava or javascript problem, as far as I can see -- the other
>quizzes work perfectly well in Firefox, and they're written in the same
>way as this one. There'll be some missing or extra HTML tag knocking
>about in the questions section that IE is ignoring and Firefox isn't; if
>I remember to (and if I've got nothing better to do) I'll work what it is.

I'd be interested to know what you find.

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