IcedEarth Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 Hi Has anybody experienced Javascript breaking on the BBC revisewise site, it seems to be an issue with IE7 and Firefox. I cannot view the interactive content. An example URL is BBC - Schools - KS2 Bitesize Revision - Science All I get is the page without the content and this javascript error from the error console. bbcjs.plugins.Flashmovie is null or not an object. This happens on XP and Vista, but first showed up in Vista, I have tried other sites such as BBC history and I get the same. Has anybody got any ideas what this could be, a bad implementation of Javascript in IE7?? Firefox doesnt work as well though, I am out of ideas. Many Thanks Rolando
bossman Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 Firefox 3.0.6 here and no problemss, also still using IE6 and no problems either.
Michael Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 Either try resetting IE7 to defaults - Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Reset Or Tools > Internet Options > Programs > Manage add-ons. Is Java enabled here? If it isn't, enable it then close and re-open IE7.
IcedEarth Posted February 9, 2009 Author Posted February 9, 2009 Either try resetting IE7 to defaults - Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Reset Or Tools > Internet Options > Programs > Manage add-ons. Is Java enabled here? If it isn't, enable it then close and re-open IE7. Thanks for the suggestions No luck either way, this is very very odd. It was working fine not so long ago... I suppose I could try a Java update...
gshaw Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 What version of flash player are you running as the multimedia is a flash object...
IcedEarth Posted February 9, 2009 Author Posted February 9, 2009 Are you connecting behind a proxy?Yes, but its never been a problem before. Mind you our LEA has just changed ISPs not related I suppose?
RabbieBurns Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 works fine for me too.. and i got 10/10 in the quiz as well...
Michael Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 It could be related and it may be worth asking your LA. The site works for me at home and the fact you've reset IE7 to defaults, I can't see what else (other than the proxy) what the problem could be.
WellyIT Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 I have been seeing this problem at a few locations for the last couple of weeks. Where it is happening, it happens to the whole school (domain). Schools are using the same proxy server and group policies as some that are working fine.
IcedEarth Posted February 11, 2009 Author Posted February 11, 2009 (edited) It seems to be okay now. I think it is no co-incidence that our LEA has changed ISPs over last weekend. It has also broken iPlayer it now thinks we are outside of the UK! Edited February 11, 2009 by IcedEarth My LEA getting annoyed
mac_shinobi Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 had a problem like that a while back when I used to work at a school and it was just a case of updating shockwave and flash, java etc and then after resetting IE 7 it seemed to work fine - a good test would be to right click on the IE 7 icon and make it startup with no plugins and see what happens.
WellyIT Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 You're right, icedearth, it has started to work. It wasn't working yesterday, 29/1 was the first call I had logged. I emailed BBC and RM, who have our upstream proxy and filtering, last week without any joy. Someone has done something. I'll wait an hour or two before I tell any users in case that someone undoes something.
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