Re: Does Macintosh read uppercase?

From: Jim Carlock (anonymous_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:59:30 -0500

It looks like your error trapping isn't working:

Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80040e14'
Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'PetsReg.ID ='.
/Registrations/authorizenet2/PEConfirmCC.asp, line 45

That's what I get when I click on the Submit button without
filling any information in. 

--
Jim Carlock
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"Jim Fitzgerald" <JimFitzgerald@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Jim:
I have the web pages on a web server now, so you can look at them
through any browser. You can't hurt it.
Here is what you should do. Open this page. The page has two forms one one
page.  It loads pre-existing district numbers and club names, and then
redirects that information to a third form on a seperate page, which should
open automatically. It will in IE, so you will want to run it in IE to see
how the scripts are supposed to run.
http://www.rotary5830.org/Registrations/2005/pe.asp
Most of the problems show up on the third (last) form.
Thanks for any help you can give.  This is so frustrating because it works
so well on 95% of the registrations.
"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?