Re: WebFacing and dying IE sessions -- WDSCI-L

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Hi all!

Seems as if we fixed our problem with dying IE sessions. Problem was home made.

At least two years ago (before my time here) a developer added a tiny JavaScript to a lot of DSPFs that was supposed to call a user defined JavaScript function on mouseover events (a fancy tooltip). Unfortunately this feature wasn't well received by our clients for some reason and so the calling code was commented out in the DSPFs and the exectution script was totally removed.

What noone noticed for 2 years was the fact that the DDS parser *IGNORES* comments in certain DDS extensions. So the calling code was still active while the actual JavaScript function was no longer available - hence a object not found error was fired every time you hoovered your mouse over given fields.

People who heavily used their mouse angried IE the longer they unknowingly genereted scripting errors ("show scripting errors" is disabled by default).

My IE naturally shows scripting errors but unfortunately I rarely use the mouse in a Webfacing session so you maybe can imagine how long it took me to nailed that problem down.

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