[Opera-users] 2 pages, no images/links--JavaScript the culprit?

[Robert Carnegie]

>===== Original Message From Warrick Bell <wjbell at mail2.gis.net>
>Subject: [Opera-users] 2 pages, no images/links--JavaScript the culprit?
>Reply-To: opera-users at opera.com
>
>Dear Operators,
>
>I offer for your perusal and comment two pages which I'm having trouble
>with.  There are only illustrative examples--there are many others similar
>on these two sites.
>The first is from eBay:
>         http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1437913994
>The large box near the bottom of the page is supposed to show the item up
>for auction (and it does show it if I view the page in IE).  The box to the
>right which shows a file folder icon (on my Win98 machines) is supposed to
>be three boxes which contain icons for three different views of the item in
>the large box.  It's only a recent thing that images hosted by eBay have
>stopped appearing.  I don't do JavaScript but it seems that's what's
>generating the image source URL.
>
>On a similar note is this page:
>         http://www.silive.com/homes/
>The central column on the page is supposed to be full of links, and they
>work as links in IE.  Again, looking at the source I see a bunch of
>JS.  Most other pages on the silive.com site seem to behave in a similar way.
>
>I'm running O5.11 on a Win98 machine.  JavaScript is enabled.  Is my setup
>at fault or is there something else going on?

I get the same results here with the same setup and also in Connections
preferences "Identify as Opera".  But if I select "Identify as MSIE 5.0",
I get pictures from eBay.  Remind me, what secret difference does
"Identify as" make to JavaScript?

On http://www.silive.com/homes/ , pressing Ctrl+J in Opera presents all
the entries "Click here>>" and ">>Click here" among useable links - but
you need to guess which "Click here" is which ;-)  The last ">>Click here"
on the page _is_ clickable.  The syntax of the link text "Click here&gt;&gt;"
doesn't confuse Opera at all, on its own, or with "target=_blank";
something else is up.  But I took all the JavaScript out of a copy of the
page (I think), and it still didn't work.

"Frame -> Validate HTML" doesn't seem to be working, but going direct
to http://www.w3.org/ and letting their HTML Validator loose on
http://www.silive.com/homes/ , it found a lot to disapprove of, including
"witdh" written for "width" - evidently this is hand crafted HTML ;-)
Not that I can type accurately myslef...

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland