Moodle in English: Jsmath loads before logging in?

Jsmath loads before logging in?

by Vitor Gonçalves - Friday, September 29, 2006, 3:01 AM

First I would like to thank David Cervone for his hard work and dedication.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

I’ve got a problem in my Moodle website (http://moodle.esjbv.pt), whenever you enter it there’s always a javascript error,. I've traced it with Microsoft script editor, and I noticed that the error was in autoload.js file.

When I log in the error it doesn’t show up again, so it seems, for me, to be some kind of problem related with cookies and due to fact that filters are being loaded in the very first page of Moodle!!!

I would really appreciate someone to help me because I haven’t got any programming skills and I don’t know what else to think!

My regards

Note: Sorry for my bad English

Re: Jsmath loads before logging in?

by Davide Cervone - Saturday, September 30, 2006, 1:21 AM

I am not able to reproduce the error you are reporting. Can you say what the error message is that you are getting in autoload.js?

There was an error with how cookies are stored by jsMath (that only seems to have affected Internet Explorer) in versions prior to 3.3e of jsMath, but I see that you are using 3.3e, so that should not be your problem. If you updated jsMath recently, it might be that the old jsMath cookie is the problem. You might try deleting the jsMath cookie first and see if that helps.

Otherwise, if you can point me to a page on your site that has some mathematics on it, I'll try it out and see if I get the same problem (I need a page with math in order to get jsMath to create its cookie in the first place). What version of IE are you using?

It is true that the javascript for the jsMath filter is loaded on the first page. The javascript for ALL filters and ALL modules is loaded at that time. The idea is that the browser will cache that javascript and so won't have to load it again on later pages. Not all of jsMath is loaded at that time (only the autoload.js and tex2math.js files, which are used to tell if the rest of jsMath needs to be loaded). It seems, however, that IE7 may not be caching the jsMath.js file when it is loaded. I'll have to look into that.

Davide

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Re: Jsmath loads before logging in?

by Vitor Gonçalves - Saturday, September 30, 2006, 8:50 AM

Thank You Davide for giving me an answer in such a short notice. Yes I recently upgraded jsmath to 3.3e and I never thought it would be related to an old cookie stored in my computer because many of my website users told me that they were having the same problem I thought it might’ve been some kind of problem related to the newest version of jsmath (the way it handled cookies). I was really dumb not to delete jsmath cookie , now everything runs fine! The error was “error cookie is undefined”, and I’m sorry I couldn’t realise the solution that was in front of my eyes.

Once more, thank U Davide for your spared time ;)

Vitor Gonçalves

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Re: Jsmath loads before logging in?

by Davide Cervone - Saturday, September 30, 2006, 9:40 AM

I'm glad that the solution was a simple one, and I appreciate knowing about this problem, in case it occurs for others.

Good luck with your site, and thanks for the kind words.

Davide

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