Re: Web page probems with mozillia and netscape

[Will Chen]

Using mozilla, I have noticed problems at the j2se api docs page
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/

I would get an Alert:
"The file /j2se/1.4.2/doc/api/overview-frame.html cannot be found. Please
check the location and try again"

I just tried the CS350 page and got the same thing when I go there THE
SECOND TIME.

I understand that there are also problems at the cs349 a2 specs page:
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~wbcowan/teaching/cs349/s04/assignments/a2.html

I have found that clearing the cache fixes the problem, so it is likely a
browser bug. It does not seem to repro in netscape.

I noticed that Mozilla 1.7 recently became the default mozilla in path.
Could people be noticing this problem because of the roll-over?

If (MF|CS)CF doesn't plan to take action, can someone confirm, please?

(Did I hear somebody say that Mozilla 1.7 (milestone) was released on 17
June 2004? *cough*cough*)

Much thanks,

Will

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W. William Chen
<ww2...@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
P.D. is the BEST!

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jason Patrick Parachoniak wrote:

Hi all,

There appears to be a problem with mozilla and netscape displaying certain
web pages. I can across this particulary with the cs350 course webpage
(www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs350/S04/index.html).
Does anyone know how to fix this? The pages work in lynx.

Thanks,
Jason

>To be fair, I've seen the same error appear on a few other sites (all of
>which were working fine at the time), so I believe it's more a fault of
>the browser than the site.
>
>However, I do agree with your frustrations.
>
>Anna
>
>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jason Patrick Parachoniak wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The site was working on mozilla this morning. It is very frustrating
>the
>> the course web site can not be view in a browser that is on the
>recomened
>> system (the unix enviroment) for completing the course.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Anna Lear wrote:
>>
> > The site is fine, it's the browser that's not. I've been getting
>>errors
> > like that when using Netscape or Mozilla from the labs. I don't know
>>what
>> > causes them, though.
>> >
>> > If you're in the lab, try lynx and see if that works?
>> >
>> > Anna
>> >
>> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jason Patrick Parachoniak wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi All,
>> > >
>> > > The S04 website does not appear to be working. I'm getting
>index.html
>> > > file can not be found after clicking the link from the main page.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Jason
>> > >
>> >
>>

[Ian Bailey]

This is an old, old, OLD bug in Mozilla (over 2 years!):
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123662

They seemed to have made some changes in 1.7 (the version on the undergrad
enivornment) to change the behaviour of the bug slightly, which probably
has somehow affected us more than the average user.

If you encounter a reproducible way to come upon this bug, please file
some information on the above page, and it may be fixed in future
versions. Otherwise, you can use the workarounds mentioned on the page.

___________________________________________________
Ian Bailey
iba...@uwaterloo.ca