Thanks; it's fine now that I've disabled JavaScript!

-- Karl

Jerry wrote:
> 
> In article <397EF3D5.D5F8EF36@alum.mit.edu>, Karl Zimmerman
> <kar### [at] alummitedu> wrote:
> 
> >http://www.povray.org/ yields an OK index frame, but the content frame
> >says
> >
> >404 Not Found
> >
> >The URL requested was: /FlycastUniversal/index.js
> >The operating system reports "The system cannot find the path
> >specified." (3).
> 
> A number of sites were having this problem last night. The simple fix
> was to turn off javascript in your browser.
> 
> What appeared to have been happening was this:
> 
> 1) the site uses an off-site advertising agency (okay)
> 
> 2) the off-site advertising agency uses javascript in their
> advertisements (bad) but puts the javascript in a separate file (good).
> 
> 3) the off-site advertising agency misplaced their javascript file
> (naughty).
> 
> (4) when Netscape discovers that a javascript or CSS file that a page
> "needs" is missing, it erases the page that "needs" it and gives you an
> error (silly).
> 
> So, whenever you load a page using that advertising agency, it inserts a
> javascript request into the page you're viewing, your browser discovers
> that the javascript file it is requesting doesn't exist, and your
> browser tells you so.
> 
> Turn off javascript and your browser never requests the javascript file
> and never discovers that it is missing. You still see the ads, though.
> I'm sure you're thrilled about that :*)
> 
> Jerry

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