[racket-dev] language-specific documentation failed on 5.1.1

From: Danny Yoo (dyoo at cs.wpi.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 18 20:11:41 EDT 2011

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
>>> > I tried this too and it seems to work for me, even under windows with
>>> > firefox.
>
> Sorry: I should have mentioned.  I observed the behavior in IE on the
> Windows 7 machines in the lab.  I believe what's happening is related
> to the way IE is prohibiting JavaScript from running on for local
> files.  When the user then clicks IE and allows JavaScript to
> evaluate, perhaps it's already too late for the JavaScript trampoline?
>


According to a question on Stack Exchange, using a "Mark of the Web"
will loosen the JavaScript restriction on locally-served web pages:

    http://superuser.com/questions/89392/ie8-refuses-to-run-javascript-from-local-hard-drive

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628.aspx

Is this something applicable?



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