IE7 reports non-existing error

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My home page is an HTML document consisting of a series of URLs separated
into categories using tables. It is about as simple and straight-forward as
an HTML document can be. But for some reason, IE7 gives an annoying beep and
posts a message saying it is protecting me from a script or an ActiveX
control - click here for options. There is absolutely nothing in my homemade
home page that resembles either a script or an ActiveX control. Is there any
way to turn off this annoying beep every time I go to my home page?

Thanks for any help.
 
In internet options---advanced --put an X on 'disable script debugging' and
'disable script debugging other'
 
Cooter said:
My home page is an HTML document consisting of a series of URLs separated
into categories using tables. It is about as simple and straight-forward as
an HTML document can be. But for some reason, IE7 gives an annoying beep and
posts a message saying it is protecting me from a script or an ActiveX
control - click here for options. There is absolutely nothing in my homemade
home page that resembles either a script or an ActiveX control. Is there any
way to turn off this annoying beep every time I go to my home page?

Thanks for any help.
Click to expand...

Read this discussion about the same issue as yours:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...45fb3ead8e70&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1
HTH.
nass
 
Sun said:
My home page is an HTML document consisting of a series of URLs separated
into categories using tables. It is about as simple and straight-forward as
an HTML document can be. But for some reason, IE7 gives an annoying beep and
posts a message saying it is protecting me from a script or an ActiveX
control
Click to expand...

Where is the page hosted? Is it possible your ISP is wrapping it in
some sort of stoopid scripting?

If you gave the URL, we could tell you more.
 
Stan Brown said:
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:06:00 -0700 from nass


Ironic in light of this topic -- when I try to view that page, I get
"Warning: This page requires the use of scripts, which your browser
does not currently allow."
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What Ironic in that, your Browser settings or the solution?.
The OP said Created an HTML with tables <table> contents </table> and by the
looks of it He/She having it residing on His/Her computer, which why the
error message pop-up or warning.
If the OP wrote an CSS in the <head> tag the browser will issue a warning
too, if He/She name it to HTA it will work and the browser will not issue an
alert message about script!.
BTW, He/She doesn't need to compromise or lower the security of the browser
to get rid off the warning.
HTH.
nass
 
My home page is an HTML document consisting of a series of URLs ?
separated
into categories using tables. It is about as simple and straight-forward
as
an HTML document can be. But for some reason, IE7 gives an annoying beep
and
posts a message saying it is protecting me from a script or an ActiveX
control - click here for options. There is absolutely nothing in my
homemade
Click to expand...

My home page resides on my hard drive, so the ISP has nothing to do with it.
An earlier reply suggested checking both scripting debug options - both are
already checked. The Microsoft suggestion to change the extension to HTA
caused the home page to run as a program in a window, and shut down IE7.

Thanks for all replies - guess I'll just put up with the aggrevation.
 
Cooter said:
My home page resides on my hard drive, so the ISP has nothing to do with it.
An earlier reply suggested checking both scripting debug options - both are
already checked. The Microsoft suggestion to change the extension to HTA
caused the home page to run as a program in a window, and shut down IE7.

Thanks for all replies - guess I'll just put up with the aggrevation.
Click to expand...

Nope, you don't need to live with it, as it is solvable and there is a
solution.
First, beside you provided the where about the HTML page residing, it will
be much of a help if you provided these info:
1- the Numbers of tables you created in this page as tables sometimes can be
a nightmare if you over done it (like nesting tables)?.
2- Is there is CSS code in the <head> of this page?.
3- The <Doctype> did you included this and can you copy the whole tag in
your next post please.
4- your protection software, what AV and firewall are you using, does this
machine is clean.
5- What happen if you reset the web settings?.
All you can think of and did you tried this page on another machine?, to
this newsgroup:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...613-dfee-4b99-9378-839a15bef262&lang=en&cr=US
BTW, do you use a cygwin HTML editor or you are using Notepad?.
HTH.
nass
 
Thanks for your interest and help.

To answer your questions - I do not use CSS, there are no nested tables, my
AV is Norton Systemworks 2003, the firewall is ZoneAlarm and the doctype
statement is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

I ran the same page on the other machine on my network (it's running Vista)
and got the same warning. It's interesting to note that I've used this ame
page, with additions and deletions, for several years and began getting the
warning only several months ago. About the same time I noticed that IE now
takes several seconds to load, so assumed one of MS's hotfixes caused the
problems. I have checked for virii and malware and found nothing. The only
possibility I can think of is that one of the URLs is itself a script or
ActiveX control, but don't know if that's possible.
 
Do you have an X on 'display notification of every script error' in internet
options advanced?
 
No, it is unchecked.

Also, brought the page into my text editor (NoteTab Pro), commented out the
first half of the URLs and ran IE - same problem. Uncommented this group,
commented out the second half, ran IE - still same result. Conclusion, there
appear to be no URLs or other wild stuff in the file.
 
Cooter said:
Thanks for your interest and help.

To answer your questions - I do not use CSS, there are no nested tables, my
AV is Norton Systemworks 2003, the firewall is ZoneAlarm and the doctype
statement is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

I ran the same page on the other machine on my network (it's running Vista)
and got the same warning. It's interesting to note that I've used this ame
page, with additions and deletions, for several years and began getting the
warning only several months ago. About the same time I noticed that IE now
takes several seconds to load, so assumed one of MS's hotfixes caused the
problems. I have checked for virii and malware and found nothing. The only
possibility I can think of is that one of the URLs is itself a script or
ActiveX control, but don't know if that's possible.
Click to expand...

Does this HTML 3.2 have CDATA in the code?.
Read this specification here for HTML 3.2.
Working with HTML DOCTYPE Declarations in FrontPage
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa218654(office.11).aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/kc/tutorial.aspx?family=web&key=workingwithdoctypedeclarations
HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
Turn your Pop-up blocker to low or turn OFF to test (you need to turn ON or
to Medium after testing).
Did you test the page on IE6 or just IE7?.
HTH.
nass
 
Tue said:
Thanks for your interest and help.

To answer your questions - I do not use CSS, there are no nested tables, my
AV is Norton Systemworks 2003, the firewall is ZoneAlarm and the doctype
statement is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
Click to expand...

3.2? That's very, very old. 4.0 has been for this millennium at
least and a few years back into the last one. Quite possibly modern
IE still has the same bugs that old IE had in dealing with that
DOCTYPE, lovingly preserved for "compatibility".

Is there any reason why you (think you) need 3.2? If not, go with
4.0. Strict by preference, Traditional if absolutely necessary.

For more:
http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch.html
 
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