Resource interpreted as other but transferred with MIME type text/javascript.

August 26, 2011 by

When I was looking at a site with the Chrome Developer Tools, it had a little error icon that said “Resource interpreted as other but transferred with MIME type text/javascript” when I clicked it.

I couldn’t figure out my error at first, but eventually realized I had for some reason had a script tag with a src assigned of blank and then had javascript between the source tags.


<script type="text/javascript">doSomething();</script>

A blank url or src is of course a reference to the current page. I don’t know why it took me so long to figure that out, but once I changed the page I realized the error.

Hope this helps!

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Learning jquery

August 24, 2010 by

I’ve been using jQuery since mid 2008 and have to say that I just love how much easier things are and not having to generally deal with the crossbrowser issues in Internet Explorer, Safari,Chrome, and Firefox.

In the roughly two years that I have worked with jQuery, I have refered to a couple of things to learn jQuery and improve my web based applications.

Rebecca Murphy wrote an excellent electronic book called jQuery Fundamentals that she gives away for free from her website. jQuery itself also has many video tutorials, and a fairly well written and maintained web based manual that works similar to a Wiki.

Hope this helps!

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Browser Redirection – Yahoo Answers

October 9, 2009 by

I am having problems getting mozilla firefox to display my website correctly. It works fine on Internet Explorer. So I was thinking of making a mirror of the website that is made specifically for firefox browsers. Is it possible to code a website so that it detects what browser a visitor is using and them sends them to the correct mirror ?(i.e. index_firefox.html or index_ie.html)

Background Information
At the root of this question, there lies a huge problem that really never would have occured if browser creators followed the w3c recommendations. Microsoft and Netscape fought the original browser wars in the 1990s and throughout this time both created proprietary nonstandard tags and didn’t always follow the w3c recommendations. Eventually, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer won the war and Netscape disappeared into the oblivion to eventually become the Mozilla Project.

Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome basically render almost exactly (99% of the time) the current w3c recommendations for css,html, and javscript and most of the draft recommendations are followed in the current builds of these browsers. Internet Explorer on the other hand, barely follows any of the w3c recommendations from even the year 2000. IE’s terrible rendering results in us having to perform significant testing and spend significant amounts of time doing IE6, IE7, and probably now IE8 hacks.

Problems With Potential Solution
I believe that redirecting based on a browser is a terrible idea, and should be avoided at all costs because of the potential doubling or trippling of work with regards to content.

Also, what happens if the browser doesn’t have javascript support of a user has turned it off? Chrome, Firefox,Opera, and Safari users would continue to be dished out a crap website that only works on some version of IE.

My Solution
Avoid the use of redirections for different browsers and instead developing a website that is 100% standards compliant and than start to add IE hacks as necessary.

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Website Compatibility Testing (Chrome,IE,FireFox,Opera)

October 8, 2009 by

When dealing with clients, prospects, or even employers I won’t generally mention specific browsers that I test my websites in and haven’t really had the question come up much. I honestly would prefer my clients / employeers spend money on something else rather than achieving perfect pixel positioning in every browser, but if they want to achieve this than I won’t complain too much! :-)

For the most part, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera are extremely similar in their rendering ( ~ 100% standards compliance and often have implemented a lot of the draft recommendations) on Windows and seem to be only slightly different at rendering from their respective Windows version on Linux and Macs.

Google Chrome
I haven’t had many occasions where Firefox has rendered differently than Chrome or Chrome has rendered differently than Opera. I usually just install the latest version on a VM for Vista, and Windows XP and haven’t really worried about the old versions as they have rendered almost identically.

Internet Explorer
Normally, you are unable to have multiple versions of Internet Explorer installed on the same operating system. When you upgrade Internet Explorer from 6 to 7 or from 7 to 8 even, most of the actual updates are occuring in the Windows folder.

A very clever individual discovered there was a method of getting multiple versions of IE (multi_ie) working side by side, unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to work any more in XP SP3, or in Windows Vista which i am stuck using at times.

Surprisingly, I found out that Microsoft offers the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images which is a group of virtual harddrives created for Microsoft Virtual PC. There’s a whole selection of machine which include: IE6, IE7 (for Vista and XP), IE8 (for Vista and XP) which will definitely help me in my testing and I hope that you will find it helpful too.

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is extremely strong in standards compliance and seems to account for about 20% of the internet browsers in use especially outside of business. Finding and installing old versions of Firefox isn’t overly difficult, although I do use oldapps.com for versions of browsers and have done very well so far. Typically, I use .0 and .5 releases of Firefox for testing as there’s almost no way I could realistically evaluate my websites in every version of the browser and I haven’t found there to be too many differences in minor releases.

Webdevelopers have a couple of options for testing with Firefox, we can use the standalone / portable ones or install multiple versions instead of using several virtual machines.Installing multiple versions of Firefox is actually fairly easy, as long as you follow the directions: multiple versions of firefox

Opera
Opera has always sort of been an interesting browser as it outlasted Netscape even though it also fought through the browser wars. Opera also used to be shareware and is now free for the PC. Opera is probably one of the better browsers out there as it is sleek, quick, standards compliant, and has some of the better multiple tab handling. Unless asked directly about, I don’t make it a habit of testing in Opera even though I personally enjoy the browser.

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