With or without JS enabled, when I click the link bottom-left of the title page, it takes me to http://billhails.net/Book/front.html which comes up entirely blank using my preferred browser (Opera). I viewed the source and saw the reference to book.js and attributed the problem to that.

I just sparked up an (relatively ancient) version of Firefox and the page loads fine there. Looking at the JS, I suspect DOM differences for Opera vs. FireFox.

Hmm, OK, thanks for that. If this breaks Opera, I'd better fix it!
Bill H


perl -e 'print sub { "Hello @{[shift->()]}!\n" }->(sub{"World"})'
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Odd, I just downloaded Opera (for Mac) and browsed to the book. It works fine for me. I'll try with a FreeBSD Opera when I get to work tomorrow morning.
Bill H


perl -e 'print sub { "Hello @{[shift->()]}!\n" }->(sub{"World"})'
[download]

Maybe it's a problem limited to the version of Opera I use, v8.51, though I get the same effects with v6.06 which I keep around for historical reasons. I tried v9 but didn't like it so I reverted.

If I save the source to a local file and comment out the script tag, it loads and displays. If I copy the contents of book.js and embed them within the local html file, it loads and displays. But if I copy the js to a local file and reference from the local html, I get the blank screen again.

It's probably a browser/version specific bug, and so not worth your while persuing.

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