Why does my javascript crash IE on a PC? 1

[TrevorH]

Hi,

I've written an interactive, javascripted quiz to help students learn the plant families. It works fine in Netscape, but it consistently makes Internet Explorer 5.0 crash on a PC. Could someone give me some idea of what's going wrong?

The quiz is located at:

http://web.pdx.edu/~proctorn/flowersx2/fqnew2.html

To make it easy to test, I've set it up for a quiz on Asteraceae. All you have to do is go to the bottom of the page and click on "Start Quiz." Then the correct answer for each photo is "Asteraceae" or just "Aster."

If you go through the quiz by just clicking on "New Photo," it works fine. But if you actually put in a few correct answers, the browser crashes. I thought it might be a memory problem related to the "innerHTML" updates, but that should cause the same problem when you click on "New Photo."

Any ideas? I'd also like to hear how the quiz responds in IE 5.5 and IE 6.0.

Thanks!

- Trevor

 

[Deltaflyer]

i HAVE ie 5.00.2314, i went through your quiz a dozen times, giving different amounts of correct answers.

I didnt experience any problems. I might suggest a reinstallation of IE, if you still experience problems then update this thread and wait for responses. DeltaFlyer
The Only Programmer To Crash With Style. LOL

 

[TrevorH]

Hmm... interesting.

I've heard from other people that the quiz crashes in IE 5.5, so it's strange that it would work in IE 5.00. Maybe the operating system has something to do with it.

What version of Windows are you using?

And were you able to make it all the way through a quiz typing in "Aster"?

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I went through it once using IE 6.0 beta on WinXP beta. No crashes at all....
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[Deltaflyer]

I'm using NT4 and yes i cut,copied and pasted "Aster" into all the answer boxes, it worked sweet as a nut. DeltaFlyer
The Only Programmer To Crash With Style. LOL

 

[SteveR321]

I'm using IE 5.5 and it crashed my browser, too. Here is exactly what I did:

Went to the website.
Clicked on the Start Quiz button.
Typed in "aster" and got the "Check your capitalization" message.
Typed in "Aster" and got the "Correct!" message.
Crashed and burned.

Good luck!
Steve

 

[WhiteTiger]

Works fine for me, Windows 2000 Workstation...running IE 5.0 ----------------------------------------
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[TrevorH]

Hey Steve,

What version of Windows are you using?

This is starting to sound like a Windows 98 problem.

- Trevor