I wrote an app for a client that uses a Mac herself! I tested the app with several different browsers and it runs great , but when she tried to run the page on her Mac it doesn't show some calculations, which use simple VBscripting!

Dim variable

some code that loops thru a database and when true does ...
variablehere=variablehere +1

later on the page I do

<td>The present count is = <input name="variablehere" type="text" id="variablehere" size="60" value="<%=variablehere%>" /></td>

I have several other variations that all work fine on Windows based computers! It shows the running totals fine , but on a Mac all the variables show 0 .
This is with both Firefox and Safari!


Is there some peculiarity I'm unaware of for this code to run on a mac?


Thanks

Pete

Where is this "running"? Are you aware of the differences between client side vs. server side behavior?

The application is running on a Viux server ! We access the pages via any PC
and they work fine ! But on a MAC its missing the ability to show running totals!

I don't see where behaviors would come into play as a web browser should
work the same way on all platforms whether it be on a Mac, PC, Unix whatever!

Is there a difference in the way a Mac interprets VBScripts is an ASP page?




Pete

What's a Viux server?

Oof... Welcome to the world of web development. Web browsers can and will differ WILDLY from eachother when rendering the exact same html/css. In fact, there's an entire cottage industry that has sprung up around this fact.

There is if you're not using an ASP enabled web server and you're loading the pages locally instead...

Viux is an internet service provider!

The web pages work fine from a PC based browser! But if you use a Mac I can't
see the running totals that work on a PC based browser!

If I use Firefox on a PC it works fine , but Firefox on a Mac gives the error!
I've also tried Apples own Safari and it still has the same problem!

Its not the ASP as such I'm worried about but rather the odd behavior of the MAC!
I'm just wondering if ASP with VBscripts should work OK on a MAC!

Pete

VBScripts execute on the server, not the client.

VBScript never gets sent to the client. The client has no clue how the page it just received was generated (short of some header information).

I'd look closer at the generated source and less at the asp.

The server should be sending the SAME code to a client on a Mac or a PC. The
server doesn't differentiate what platform the client is running on !

So if a client with a PC on Firefox calls up the page, it should be the same code
a client running Firefox on a Mac gets! they should technically both get the same code!
but the PC based client works fine and the Mac client doesn't!

Is there a difference on how code is interpreted on a PC based web browser verses
a Mac based browser?

Has anyone ever heard of code that works on a PC but not on a Mac , even though its the same code!


Pete

I understand what you mean, but if it's in a script tag, it's technically running on IE. I haven't tried with later versions of IE, but in the past, you could run *any* ActiveScripting language within IE.

So, to be clear:

If it is the case that you have script tags running VBScript, you should replace them with Javascript. If you're using VBScript, your page won't run on Linux or even Firefox (which has ~20% of browser share) on Windows.

Ok here is some code !
This is the first line in my asp page!

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>

<%
Dim t_counter
Dim alli_c
%>

then later I do a bunch of counters like this ...
<%
While (NOT Recordset1.EOF)
t_counter=t_counter+1
%>
HTML stuff

<%
if(request.form("alli")="checked" and Recordset1.Fields.Item("alliance").value=1)then
alli_c=alli_c+1
end if
%>


later in the form I show the results!
<td bgcolor="#66CC99">&nbsp;total records=<%=t_counter%></td>
<td bgcolor="#66CC99">&nbsp;Alliance = <%=alli_c%></td>


Pete

so you are running script on the client
as scoo8y says vbscript has limited browser support. you would be safer using javascript

do your web pages work correctly on other browsers running on Microsoft OS's such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera and so on?

I've tried the pages an every browser I could, IE6-7-8 , Firefox , Chrome ! They
all work fine under Windows! I'd change the code but I have several hundred lines of code for this page alone!

At least her main desktop is a Mac but she also has a PC so she can always use the PC for the few times she needs to access this particular page!

Next pages I do I'll do in Javascript! As soon as I get used to the differences.
I did most of my ASP for a national company intranet that had IE as standard browser so I adopted VBScript as the norm!

However I did use javascript for many of my routines! I'll dig up my old code!

Pete

Thanks guys !

I just came back from my clients and low and behold everything works fine!
Last week I tried for an hour and couldn't get the page to show good numbers.
Today I asked to load the page to check some options and it worked fine!
I asked her if she ever had trouble loading other pages and she said no,so it
didn't make sense that it would be a VBscript or javascript problem as
there are a ton of pages just like mine that use VBScript as default!

I guess an occasional reboot for a Mac does some good as well!

Pete

It's "lo and behold," lo is an exclamation from the same word "look" comes from.

None of the code you pasted was running on the Mac as anything inside <% and %> is handled by ASP on the server. Client-side VBScript is very rare on the web.