Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum

Suggestions and Problems => Questions About/Problems using the board? => Topic started by: Steve (redding43) on October 31, 2007, 12:36:58 PM

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: Steve (redding43) on October 31, 2007, 12:36:58 PM

I am having a number of problems with the forum today including problems with the page loading and strange popup error type messages - anyone else getting this

Keith, whilst it could be linked to my PC it may be the google adverts as the banners seem to have a problem loading. More worrying though is a grey error type box that appears that says something like 'This page should have a link to coinmill.com'

Steve

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: JohnF on October 31, 2007, 13:06:39 PM

Sounds like a local browser issue - have you recently updated your Java engine or browser?

JF

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: cef on October 31, 2007, 13:07:21 PM

Not experienced any problems yet today, but yesterday had a couple of strange 'cut-outs' & then messages telling me someone was trying to download? Re-booted & all ok, I think.....

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: Steve (redding43) on October 31, 2007, 13:13:36 PM

Keith, have you added a currency conversion link on the site anywhere

JohnF, this is not linked to any JAVA update and my browser is fine - thanks for the ideas though

Steve

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: Steve (redding43) on October 31, 2007, 13:15:18 PM

Found it!!

Keith, the problem is with some code on the site. Looks like some browser settings do not like the way it is called:

 <div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"  src="http://coinmill.com/frame.js"></script>
                       <script type="text/javascript">var currency_round=true;</script>
                       <font face="Arial" size="2">
                       Todays exchange rate: <img src="images/gbp.gif" width="25" height="16" alt="British Pounds" /> 1.00GBP =
                       <script type="text/javascript">currency_show_conversion(1.00,"GBP","TRY");</script>
                       YTL <img src="images/turkFlag.jpg" width="25" height="16" alt="Turkish Lira" />
                       <small>Data From: <a href="http://coinmill.com/">coinmill.com</a></small></font></div>

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: JohnF on October 31, 2007, 13:22:05 PM

Funnily enough Steve, I suspect it *is* to do with settings on the local browser being changed - especially if you haven't had a problem before.  The coinmill Mod calls a javascript which 99.9% of browsers handle perfectly well - but sometimes, just sometimes, it falls over when the browser doesn't handle the call correctly.

I wrote this particular mod some time ago and it has been running on this, and two other busy forums, for over a year now; this is the first time there has been an issue that anyone has highlighted.  I'll insert a detection script that will cancel the javasript before the browser falls over and send to you to add shortly.

JF

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: Steve (redding43) on October 31, 2007, 13:48:32 PM

Cheers JF

Title: Strange things happening
Post by: tribalelder on October 31, 2007, 14:40:44 PM

Had the problem for about 15 minutes this morning CBF kept dropping me out and substituting me onto the Quikcast site for weather in Australia.Or is someone trying to tell me something?:D