Google Login requiring Javascript - prevents seesaw login

[Bev]

We are having issues logging into Seesaw on some of our iPads.

 

The google login gives an error saying Javascript is required and to use a different browser, however, we aren't in a browser, it's just the popup Google login box that you use when you use the google login to access an app.

[Bev]

as so often seems to be the case, after I post on here I find the answer myself. But I will share it in case it affects anyone else.

 

It is possible to disable javascript on the iPad within safari. It needed to be reenabled.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-enable-javascript-on-ipad?r=US&IR=T

[Koldov]

I never really got into what Java, Javascript, SDK, JDK etc... actually are and why they are good or bad (apart from having similar holes and vulnerabilities to Flash and that 'Java' needs to be deleted from all the computers)...

 

However, I still see adverts for programming in Java and as far as I'm aware 'Javascript' is still heavily in use across the internet (which I think is different from having Java installed on your computer to run a program and being a security risk).

 

Someone will hopefully chime in and tell me I'm wrong if not, but I have noticed on our MDM (Meraki) there is a setting to allow 'Javascript' and I've allowed it for our iPads for the above reasons.

 

[mrstrong]

java and javascript are very different, java from Sun came first and Netscape tried to cash in on the "java buzz" by

naming their language javascript (marketing / managers !)

 

Javascript is used on client (and server these days) and is pretty much essential for most websites to work.

All the main web browsers have a built in JavaScript interpreter which you can disable but then most sites won't work properly.

 

I think java still gets used quite a bit for server side development but not so much on clients these days.

The JDK (sometimes called the SDK) is what a developer downloads (e.g. download it from oracle) to write java code

The thing we used to install on PCs etc was the JRE (java runtime environment) which runs the bytecode created by the JDK

Some versions of JRE had security issues and chrome stopped supporting NPAPI plugins like the java plugin a long time ago