[Squeakland] Plugin on IE8

Korakurider korakurider at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 04:21:34 PDT 2009


Hi all.
I could reproduce the problem.
Both are wrong guess :-)
This is caused by IE8's "ActiveX opt-in feature";  ActiveX controls in
page of non-trusted zone (in Internet settings) needs to be approved.
see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250471.aspx

I filled http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-244

/Korakurider


On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Korakurider<korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess other possibility would be ...
> Staff to install will be decided by only target operating system.
> Current installer don't care about IE version.
> So legacy plugin was installed to his XP box and that might be
> incompatible with IE8...
> I will try to reproduce.
>
> /Korakurider
> p.s. If there is problem please forward this to squeak-dev (I am not
> subscribing).
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> Perhaps it's just the javascript that's malfunctioning? It's supposed to
>> detect if the plugin is installed but maybe that is not working?
>> - Bert -
>> On 03.06.2009, at 21:03, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> Hi Long,
>> I forward this to the list, too. Are you subscribed to squeak-dev
>> or squeakland at squeakland.org? Please do so, that we can discuss it there :)
>> Rita
>>
>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>>
>> Von: "Long Nguyen" <long at silo3.com>
>> Datum: 3. Juni 2009 19:58:57 MESZ
>> An: "Rita Freudenberg" <rita at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
>> Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Fwd: squeakland contact
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> To be a little more specific, this is the page that I get:
>>
>> You do not seem to have the Squeakland plugin installed.
>> Please download the plugin here and then run the installer.
>>
>> You could also download DemonCastle1.055.pr and open it in Etoys.
>>
>> I've tried multiple times installing and uninstalling Internet explorer 8
>> and the standard explorer as well as firefox 3.
>>
>> I finally got it to work with firefox 2 in the mozilla archives.
>>
>> I'm guessing that one of my security settings are locking it out, but I do
>> not know which one. I would rather keep everything in IE8 than move
>> everything back to firefox 2.
>>
>> The regular etoys program/installer works fine though.
>>
>> Long
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Rita Freudenberg
>> To: Long Nguyen
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:09 AM
>> Subject: Fwd: [squeak-dev] Fwd: squeakland contact
>> Hi,
>> I forwarded your question to the squeak-dev mailing list and got these
>> answers so far:
>> Greetings,
>> Rita
>>
>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>>
>> Von: Luis Valente <is.valente at gmail.com>
>> Datum: 3. Juni 2009 10:23:43 MESZ
>> An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Fwd: squeakland contact
>> Antwort an: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using IE8 on Vista business without problems.
>> Must check activeX permission on launching the plugin.
>>
>> Luis
>> 2009/6/2 Michael Rueger <m.rueger at acm.org>
>>>
>>> Rita Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> can anybody help here?
>>>
>>> A bit more specific description of "trouble" would help...
>>>
>>> I haven't installed IE8 yet, maybe someone with IE8 could check?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> Rita
>>>>
>>>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>>>>
>>>>> Von: Long Nguyen <long at silo3.com>
>>>>> Datum: 2. Juni 2009 19:28:36 MESZ
>>>>> An: squeakland staff <webcontact at squeakland.org>
>>>>> Betreff: squeakland contact
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, I'm having trouble running the plugin on IE8 with win xp pro. Do you
>>>>> have any tips to get it running?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> All the best,
>> Luís Valente
>>
>>
>>
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