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Firefox - nothing shows

3 January, 2008 - 00:55 — mwr

The Backbase 4_2_1 beginner tutorial example application WORKS under Safari 3.0.4 but DOES NOT WORK under Firefox 2.0.0.8 (Mac OS X 10.4.11).

<!----> 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 

<html> 

<head> 

        <title>Backbase 4.1 Example</title> 

        <script type="text/javascript" src="/Backbase/4_1_2/engine/boot.js" /> 

</head> 

<body> 

<script type="application/backbase+xml"

        xmlns:b="http://www.backbase.com/2006/btl"

        xmlns:c="http://www.backbase.com/2006/command" 

        xmlns:d="http://www.backbase.com/2006/tdl" 

        xmlns:e="http://www.backbase.com/2006/xel" 

        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"

        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 

        <xi:include href="/Backbase/4_1_2/bindings/config.xml" /> 

        <div>

                <e:handler event="click" type="text/javascript">

                        alert('This is a working Backbase installation');

                </e:handler>

                Click Here

        </div>

</script> 

</body> 

</html>

Search 4.1.2 forum using keyword "nothing shows" for a mirror-image problem under MSIE.

Note that using the "Alternate Engine Syntax" DOES WORK under both Safari and Firefox:

<!----> 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 

<html> 

<head> 

        <title>Backbase 4.1 Example</title> 

        <script type="text/javascript" src="/Backbase/4_1_2/engine/boot.js" /> 

</head> 

<body> 

<xmp backbase="true"

        xmlns:b="http://www.backbase.com/2006/btl"

        xmlns:c="http://www.backbase.com/2006/command" 

        xmlns:d="http://www.backbase.com/2006/tdl" 

        xmlns:e="http://www.backbase.com/2006/xel" 

        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"

        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 

        <xi:include href="/Backbase/4_1_2/bindings/config.xml" /> 

        <div>

                <e:handler event="click" type="text/javascript">

                        alert('This is a working Backbase installation');

                </e:handler>

                Click here to check for proper installation...

        </div>

</xmp> 

</body> 

</html>

Can anyone explain this?

script tag

3 January, 2008 - 01:30 — uspeople

Hi-

I had the same problem. Running your test on Vista/FF2.0.0.11 results in an empty page.
The way I fixed it was to make sure that the script tag is not empty.

This fixes it for me:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/Backbase/4_1_2/engine/boot.js"><!-- --></script>

Make sure you stick something in between the tags so that whatever technology you are using does not "optimize" the tags back into a single tag.

I'm not sure why the alternate syntax works for you- i didn't test it- but you might want to see if this fixes it for you. Otherwise, a blank page also occurs if your Backbase path is wrong, so you might want to double check that too.

script tag

3 January, 2008 - 19:21 — mwr

Thanks, that worked for me. Even without the comments inside the script tag:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/Backbase/4_1_2/engine/boot.js"></script>

Why the alternate syntax does not require writing the script tag this way is another perplexing question... but I'll try not to think about it :-)

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