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Maxaxle · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:05 am Post subject: Chat not working >.<

Whenever I click Chat, nothing happens...And it used to work, too!
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penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:

Make sure your browser isn't blocking popups from Javascript.
Or: open a new window/tab and copy/paste:
http://egoboo.informe.com/forum/chat/chatbox.php
See if that works.
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Maxaxle · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:11 am Post subject:

Hmmh, it worked when I clicked the link in your post...
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PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:13 am Post subject:

It must be some browser security setting or something.
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Maxaxle · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:

Nah, I right-clicked it, then clicked Properties, and found this as the Address:

penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject:

It opens the window when you click on it.
the javascript:void(0) is just a placeholder for the chat window to open without changing the main page.
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Maxaxle · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

But it still doesn't work.
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penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject:

Do you have Javascript disabled or popups from Javascript disabled?
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bgbirdsey · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:15 am Post subject:

GAR! The default for firefox is to have the popup blocker tuned on.

Confusing because all the popup blocker plugins put an icon on the messagebar when they are active...

Turned blocker off, but it still doesn't work. Javascript is enabled.

penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:19 am Post subject:

I can still use it, even though I have Firefox's popup blocker turned on.
My guess is that your Javascript is disabled.
Firefox:
Goto Tools->Preferences (Edit->Preferences on Linux)
Click on Content
See if Enable Javascript is checked.
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bgbirdsey · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:30 am Post subject:

I edited my post to add "Turned blocker off, but it still doesn't work. Javascript is enabled."

It may be that there is a borked installation of "Adblock Plus". It says disabled, but there is no simple way to enable it. I think I'll remove it and "reboot" firefox.

Second Post:

Just checked the error console. There is an error in the javascript of the chat button.

http://egoboo.informe.com/forum/index.php

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it may be an issue with Sun Java?

penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:41 am Post subject:

Someone messed up then, those backslashes aren't supposed to be there.
I found a workaround.
Go to the index page and click "Click to join chat" instead of "Chat".

Edit: Java? This uses Javascript, not Java. They are two different things.
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bgbirdsey · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:19 am Post subject:

Just a guess, but I think that in Mozilla it is likely that Java and JavaScript are closely linked.

JavaScript functions must be interpreted by making some kind of "system calls". Since JavaScript is essentially a "stripped down" version of Java, it seems likely that the Mozilla designers would map JavaScript calls to equivalent Java calls.

Not doing this would require a significant amount of code duplication to implement the same function in Java and and in JavaScript.

penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:45 am Post subject:

No... Javascript is a totally different language:

Zefz · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 10:40 am Post subject:

It works fine for me. I use both adblock and mozilla. I have Java enabled of course.
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