Problems with Netscape/Javascript/onLoad()

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Problems with Netscape/Javascript/onLoad()

work around it? Netscape onload or javascript not working

mikejson

4:52 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm trying to have a page that when it loads the body it will redirect to a different page. Reason being, I have redone the entire website, but alot of people have links to our previous pages, so the major ones I am forwarding to the proper places.

Now my code is something like this

...
function goNew(){
document.location = 'http://www.example.edu/admissions/apply/exp_profile.php' ;
}

//-->
</script>
</head>

<body onLoad= "goNew()" >
...

Now this works perfectly fine in IE, but I want it to work for ALL browsers.

Any answers out there?

[edited by: korkus2000 at 5:28 pm (utc) on Sep. 23, 2003]
[edit reason] examplified URL [/edit]

korkus2000

5:28 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

Try this:

function goNew(){
window.location = 'http://www.example.edu/admissions/apply/exp_profile.php' ;
}

The location property is part of the window object.

mikejson

1:38 pm on Sep 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

that didn't work either....

korkus2000

3:55 pm on Sep 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

So what happens in the other browsers? What other browsers does it not work in? Any other scripts on the page?

mikejson

6:38 pm on Sep 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've only tried it in 2 browsers(IE and Netscape). IE gets to the page that the javascript directs it to when the body loads. Netscape shows the html of the page.

MonkeeSage

10:45 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

In both cases the onload event is firing since you get a notable change; if it were not working in one of the browsers nothing noticible would happen at all, it would just sit there as if you used no JavaScript. That being that case, I'd venture a guess that the problem lies in the PHP page. You can try changing the url to google.com instead of the php page to test it.

Jordan

mikejson

12:49 pm on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

In netscape it doesn't actually do anything. The onLoad doesn't fire. But the weird thing is, when it shows the page, it doesn't treat it like a web page, it treats it like a text file, showing the source of the page. If onLoad doesn't fire, you'd think it would show just a blank page. Nothing in the body at all in the source.

Thats why this is baffling me. Can anyone else out there test if Netscape does infact work properly when using onload in the body tag?

Thanks for the help all

korkus2000

12:55 pm on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Which version of netscape is it?

MonkeeSage

1:33 pm on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

You could try taking out the onload attribute from the body and putting this at the end of your script block just below the goNew() function...

window.onload = goNew;

Jordan

mmdesign

3:05 pm on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Could be missing ";" as follows:

I think your <body onLoad= "goNew()" > should be <body onLoad= "goNew();" >

mikejson

3:28 pm on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

korkus, I was informed that Netscape communicator 4.xx is doing this, and I also had the same thing with Netscape 7.

I'm tryin the ; thing, but I don't have time until tonight, I'll post back my findings tomorrow

mikejson

12:43 pm on Sep 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Ok, I think it could be that netscape has a problem with cgi files.... not sure though, but this has a cgi extension on the file and it shows the source....

Anyone know of this?

mikejson

2:39 pm on Sep 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

/bump....(don't know if this is frowned apon in this forum or not)

still lookin for an answer to the question

I think it could be that netscape has a problem with cgi files.... not sure though, but this has a cgi extension on the file and it shows the source....