JavaScript works differently in IE6.0/5.5 and AEC 4.22

Dear all!
I’ve worked on some nice Java for my navigation. And it works just fine in IE6 as well as IE 5.5, and also Firefox.

When I compile an eBook from the very same html source that I test browse, however, the script just doesn’t work.

(The part that fails deals with expanding a collapsed subnav to highlight the current page)

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What could this depend upon?

Can there be conflicts with Activ somehow? Are there Java commands that are not compatible with active ebook compiler?
Note: I don’t use any Activ-scripts in my source files.

Interestingly, the script won't excecute either when I browse the same pages in IE5.0 – which renders the same result as does the eBook compiled with AEC 4.22.

And I have the exact same settings for Java handling in all my IE verions (6; 5.5 and 5.0).

Most grateful for any and all feedback! Perhaps Alaska or Sunil might shed some light on this ?

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Your ebook is reading files from a temporary directory, so your Javascript is probably testing for the page, and can't recognize it.

Dear all (attention Sunil / Alaska!),

I’ve come to a tricky spot.

In my Javascript I pass the variable “location” to a function. The “location” variable contains information on the current URL when used in a browser.

In the eBook, the corresponding information is contained in the {ebookurl} predefined active variable - thanks Alaska for pointing that out! So, this is the variable that I need to work with.

As part of my navigation structure I call upon a function as follows:

getRealAddress(location)

This function looks like :

function getRealAddress(oOb)
{ return oOb.protocol + ( ( oOb.protocol.indexOf( ':' ) + 1 ) ? '' : ':' ) + oOb.hostname + ( ( typeof(oOb.pathname) == typeof(' ') && oOb.pathname.indexOf('/') != 0 ) ? '/' : '' ) + oOb.pathname + oOb.search; }

How can I use the {ebookurl} variable here? Is it possible? When just inserting ‘{ebookurl}’ instead of location in the function call, I get an error saying “protocol is null” or something to that effect.

Please advice!

You will want to swap out the functions' use of the 'Pathname' property:

'Pathname' is the part of a URL that specifies how to access a particular resource.

You can see the 'pathname' value with something like this:

 document.write(location.pathname)

This would produce : articles/todayspage.htm

So, you will swap the pathname value with the {ebookurl}.  Get the {ebookurl} value lilke this:

var eb_pathname ;
eb_pathname = window.external.ActivGet('{ebookurl}') ;

... now you can use 'eb_pathname' instead of 'pathname' in your function.

But I think I've figured it out now.

Thanks again,
Jaxz