IE7 localhost javascript problem

registered · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:54 pm

I created a new user account on XP Home recently. Apparently today was the first day I tried to use IE7 with it. I got this weird prompt about security and local intranet (I was testing some stuff with XAMPP and using http://localhost). I can't remember how I answered the question, but now all I get is a blank page whenever I try to view pages that include some javascript via a script tag. Its not all javascript, but javascript I know works. I have been futzing with this d*** thing for an hour, googling, and I cannot find the setting to fix it. Any ideas? IE does not indicate any errors on the page. As soon as I comment out the script tags the page loads.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:43 pm

Move to GNU/Linux?

I never had problems using anything other then IE

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:00 pm

I only use IE7 to check compatibility.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:30 pm

I've uninstalled it and reinstalled it. Same thing.

I have a page that is valid XHTML. It is blank in IE7; well actually it does have the background color that the .css file has in it. If I do a "view source" the document is all there.

If I remove this one line then it works:

Code:




<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/django/media/js/theme.js" />

Note that this theme.js file is an empty file!

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:04 pm

WOW.

Okay, here is the solution to this. Apparently IE7 treats <script /> and <script></script> differently.

All my problems went away when I formatted my script tag like this:

Code:




<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/django/media/js/theme.js"></script>

I didn't actually find this solution, I had to turn to the geniuses on the #django IRC channel.

Here is the link they pointed me at: http://tanrikut.blogspot.com/2007/09/ie7-shows-blank-page-problem.html

registered · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:00 pm

Hhhhmmm... good to know. Not sure I've ever tried the no end tag version, so I guess that is why I have never run into this.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:36 pm

Yeah...who knew? I lost a couple hours looking into this...d'oh!

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:08 am

montego wrote:

Not sure I've ever tried the no end tag version, so I guess that is why I have never run into this.

It does have an end. Read up about XHTML Wink

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:27 am

djmaze, I know that. I've done the majority of the XHTML clean-up for RN! But, I have always paired up a script tag with the closing tag rather than the element minimization syntax. Didn't even know it would be valid as I've never seen it written as an empty element.