Visitor has a question re "garbled" websites

[Guest]

I'm new here and hoping some wizard here can answer my question or point me
in the right direction.

Some web sites I visit appear garbled. Usually at the top of the page there
is a lot of gibberish. An examination of this gibberish reveals that it is
Javascript source code that is being rendered as on-screen, non-wrapped text
and that overlays the site underneath, i.e. rather than reading the script
AS script the browser is reading it as text.

I'm using IE6 on a Win98SE system. I have installed the latest Java VM from
Sun. The problem also occurs with Firefox (Mozilla variant). It doesn't
happen when I use OffbyOne, a simple freeware browser that doesn't interpret
Javascript. Nor does it happen at all sites -- typically, just some
commercial sites.

Any idea what's happening and how to correct it? Is it simply poor coding in
the part of the website?

M

 

[Weyoun the Dancing Borg]

I'm new here and hoping some wizard here can answer my question or point me
in the right direction.

Some web sites I visit appear garbled. Usually at the top of the page there
is a lot of gibberish. An examination of this gibberish reveals that it is
Javascript source code that is being rendered as on-screen, non-wrapped text
and that overlays the site underneath, i.e. rather than reading the script
AS script the browser is reading it as text.

I'm using IE6 on a Win98SE system. I have installed the latest Java VM from
Sun. The problem also occurs with Firefox (Mozilla variant). It doesn't
happen when I use OffbyOne, a simple freeware browser that doesn't interpret
Javascript. Nor does it happen at all sites -- typically, just some
commercial sites.

Any idea what's happening and how to correct it? Is it simply poor coding in
the part of the website?

M

can you give an example site?

 

[Mabden]

I'm new here and hoping some wizard here can answer my question or point me
in the right direction.

Some web sites I visit appear garbled. Usually at the top of the page there
is a lot of gibberish. An examination of this gibberish reveals that it is
Javascript source code that is being rendered as on-screen, non-wrapped text
and that overlays the site underneath, i.e. rather than reading the script
AS script the browser is reading it as text.

[snip]

I'm sure most replies you get are going to ask for a sample URL...

 

[Guest]

can you give an example site?

As an example, this is the site for Web Dwarf, a freeware WYSIWYG HTML
editor. The few words of gibberish are:

{setVisibility("hidden");

Looking at the source code this appears about half-way through the page.
As I mentioned though this text isn't rendered by OffbyOne.

http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

 

[Kathy]

Some web sites I visit appear garbled.

As an example, this is the site for Web Dwarf, a freeware WYSIWYG HTML
editor. The few words of gibberish are:

{setVisibility("hidden");

Looking at the source code this appears about half-way through the page.
As I mentioned though this text isn't rendered by OffbyOne.

http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

This might have something to do with it:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

Also this:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...lmechanics.com/products/dwarf/&usermedium=all

- Kathy

 

[Weyoun the Dancing Borg]

coding in

can you give an example site?

As an example, this is the site for Web Dwarf, a freeware WYSIWYG HTML
editor. The few words of gibberish are:

{setVisibility("hidden");

Looking at the source code this appears about half-way through the page.
As I mentioned though this text isn't rendered by OffbyOne.

http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/
[/QUOTE]

*shrugs*

works for me

 

[Guest]

Problem solved.
It has something to do with Web Washer, a freeware Internet filter program.
When I bypass it, the site looks clean.
I think Web Washer operates something like Proxomitron, re-writing the page
on the fly. It has an option to ignore Javascript and the problem is there
I'm sure.
Thanks all for the assist. . .

M