[WEB4LIB] Opera loading a javascript menu

[Diana Calder]

Tuesday, March 06, 2001, 2:11:21 PM, Troy Swanson wrote:

ST> Dear colleagues,

ST> I am developing a tutorial that uses frames.  The left frame is a navigation
ST> menu that is created using javascript.  This frame loads fine in IE and
ST> Netscape but it will not load in Opera.  I was wondering if anyone out there
ST> could tell why?  I would love to know if it is Opera or if it is my script.

ST> I have posted the page at:
ST> http://www.mv.cc.il.us/mvcclrc/tutorial/frameset.htm

Well, after it failed to load in Opera, I took a look at the source
and noticed that it doesn't seem to actually indicate that it IS
Javascript (I've only made limited use of Javascript, but the times I
have used it, "javascript" has appeared in the code for that section).
So, then I right-clicked the frame and had Opera run it through the
W3C HTML validator, which complained about a missing DOCTYPE
declaration in Line 1, column 1 (not likely to be the cause), then
complained in Line 4, column 7 that there was an error "required
attribute "TYPE" not specified".  There are other errors reported
following that, but I suspect that the problem does in fact lie in the
specification of script type (Opera itself does not report a
Javascript error in the frame, instead it acts as if it doesn't even
know that there is any Javascript present).

Diana Calder
Automation Technician
Essex County Library