162201 - npi.nl - Website shows just black screen

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Dutch, defect, P3)

Description

[Marcel van Beurden]

The website of the National Pop Institute (NPI) just shows an unhelpful black
screen upon entering the site. It seems there is some bad browser checking being
done which leads to nothing. Blah!

The Javascript console says:
Error: document.p has no properties
Source File: http://www.npi.nl/splash.htm
Line: 53

The site works fine in IE6.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

confirm linux trunk cvs 2002-08-10

fwiw, workaround -> http://www.npi.nl/frames.htm

Comment 2

[Marcel van Beurden]

If you use the workaround, you won't see the main menu which is supposed to be
left side of the main screen. The menu is at http://www.npi.nl/nav/nav.htm.
Man, how complicated can a website get... Does this site really need so many
redirects and frames ?

Comment 3

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

for the splash, heres what they are doing in http://www.npi.nl/splash.htm :

var isNav=(navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")!=-1);
if(isNav){  document.p.document.write(aa);  document.p.document.close(); }
else  p.innerHTML=aa a+=b;

hereis the correct way :
if (document.layers) {document.p.document.write(aa);document.p.document.close();}
else if (document.all) {p.innerHTML=aa a+=b}
else if (document.getElementById('p').innerHTML)
{document.getElementById('p').innerHTML=aa a+=b}

I will see what I can do for the menu.

Comment 4

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

if (document.layers) {document.p.document.write(aa);document.p.document.close();}
else if (document.all) {p.innerHTML=aa; a+=b}
else if (document.getElementById('p').innerHTML)
{document.getElementById('p').innerHTML=aa; a+=b}

looks better :)
everything else should work, and with this fixed, the frameset _should_ open.

Comment 5

[Patrick]

Mass updating .nl Tech Evang bugs

contact info : [e-mail]
Webmaster: Mathijs Brouwer

Comment 6

[Marcel van Beurden]

Attachment: Reply from webmaster (in Dutch)

I added this reply to remind myself that I already emailed him and that he
already replied. It has been 8 months ago since I sent it and the site still
behaves the exact same way.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 8

[Patrick]

June 2003 : prioritizing Dutch Tech evangs

Comment 9

[Thomas]

tested with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b)
Gecko/20031208: still a black screen.

Comment 10

[Marcel van Beurden]

Just got an email from the webmaster. The latest planning is to have a new
website spring 2004. He's using Firebird now himself, so that should help :-)

Comment 11

[Marcel van Beurden]

Just visited the website and everything seems to work just fine now. Hooray!

P.S. www.popinstituut.nl is an alias for www.npi.nl