Re: [Re: [IBM Alphaworks - scripting errors with the browser component]]

In a message dated 11/04/2003 20:02:04 GMT Daylight Time, 
AndrewWatt2001@aol.com writes:


> Hi again,
> 
> Thanks but I had already checked that.
> 
> I have msxml4.dll, msxml4a.dll and msxml4r.dll in C:\WINNT\System32 - it's 
> a Win2k machine. All of the files show version as MSXML 4.0 SP1.
> 
> Is there any easy way to check if IE 5.5 is "seeing" the correct version of 
> MSXML4? Unfortunately the versioning tips on netcrucible.com don't extend 
> to service packs of MSXML4.
> 
> Andrew Watt

I was hoping for a follow up response from IBM but have solved the problem 
myself.

By upgrading from IE5.5 with MSXML4 Sp1 to IE6 the problem goes away. I can 
run all the AlphaWorks examples without the previously evident scripting 
errors.

I didn't test between my previous installation of IE5.5 and after applying 
all the security etc updates and the update to IE6, so perhaps there is one 
update to IE5.5 that is critical to the AlphaWorks browser component running 
correctly.

Certainly, in my experience, IE5.5 (which had some but not all MS updates 
applied) with MSXML4 Sp1 doesn't work with the AlphaWorks XForms samples.

IBM might want to consider specifying IE6 as necessary for the AlphaWorks 
package, since it is evident that it doesn't work on all IE 5.5 installs.

Having said all that it is very nice to have an XForms implementation (I 
haven't tested how much is implemented yet) that will run in a conventional 
browser.

Andrew Watt