Re: Does Macintosh read uppercase?

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From: Murray (forums_at_HAHAgreat-web-sights.com)
Date: 02/22/05


Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:04:25 -0500

Yeah - I saw that, too, and I had filled in the whole form, so, it's
something else I think....

-- 
Murray
============
"Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote in message 
news:%23jp08lSGFHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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
> Post replies to newsgroup.
>
> "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?
>
> 


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