Re: Does Macintosh read uppercase?

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From: Jim Fitzgerald (JimFitzgerald_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:27:04 -0800

To Murray & Jim:

Thanks for taking the time to consider this. As you say, it may be a very
simple thing. I will get it posted on a dummy site so that you can look at
it without affecting my regular database.

"Jim Carlock" wrote:

> Javascript is supposed to be case-sensitive on all platforms,
> (as is Java). Other scripting languages like vbScript and ASP
> don't have this problem.
>
> If you have variables named:
>
> var Idx = 1;
> var idx = 10;
>
> they are two DIFFERENT variables.
>
> There are a couple things that you might want to consider
> before jumping to conclusions, though...
>
> 1) Does it happen on ALL MacIntosh computers? If it
> works on one but not on another, then there is something
> wrong or different about the Mac that it doesn't work on.
> This is probably the most important aspect to identify.
> 2) Look at the website with different browsers. Does it
> appear to be a problem when using the mozilla or firefox
> browser? If it fails on mozilla or firefox but runs on IE,
> then all of the code should be rewritten so that it runs on
> the mozilla browsers as well as Internet Explorer. The
> mozilla and firefox browsers are free and easy to install...
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
>
> What's the webpage that's having the problem??? Maybe
> someone here has a Mac or can test the page with a
> Mozilla browser if you don't want to do it yourself.
>
> --
> Jim Carlock
> Post replies to newsgroup.
>
> "Murray" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote:
> > Macs seem to be reading the fields ok and most web Bots, but the
> > javascript
> > calculations and validations it seems to ignore. I am guessing that I
> > will
> > have to rename the fields and their references in the javascript to all
> > lowercase and underscores.
>
> I doubt that is the problem. I think it's much more likely that the
> scripting itself is overlooking something "Macintoshy".
>
> While I am not much of a scripter, others here are - you wanna post the
> code, or a link to the page? If the latter, then I can examine it "in
> Macinto" so to speak....
>
> --
> Murray
> ============
>
> "Jim Fitzgerald" wrote:
> > Thanks Murry:
> >
> > I appreciate your taking the time to reply.
> >
> > Macs seem to be reading the fields ok and most web Bots, but the
> > javascript
> > calculations and validations it seems to ignore. I am guessing that I
> > will
> > have to rename the fields and their references in the javascript to all
> > lowercase and underscores.
> >
> > Do you think that will solve the problem, or will it take some major
> > changes
> > to make it work? I can make the case-changes but I am not a programmer,
> > but
> > my son, who did the form for me is.
> >
> > "Murray" wrote:
> >
> >> Errr -
> >>
> >> Yes. No.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Murray
> >> ============
> >>
> >> "Jim Fitzgerald" wrote:
> >> > Does Macintosh read upper and lower case scripts? I have a form that
> >> > uses
> >> > JavaScript to manipulate several fields. The field names are mixed
> >> > upper
> >> > and
> >> > lowercase.
> >> >
> >> > Could that cause a Mac to ignore the scripts?
>
>
>

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