Visitor has a question re "garbled" websites

I'm new here and hoping some wizard here can answer my question or point me
in the right direction.

Some web sites I visit appear garbled. Usually at the top of the page there
is a lot of gibberish. An examination of this gibberish reveals that it is
Javascript source code that is being rendered as on-screen, non-wrapped text
and that overlays the site underneath, i.e. rather than reading the script
AS script the browser is reading it as text.

I'm using IE6 on a Win98SE system. I have installed the latest Java VM from
Sun. The problem also occurs with Firefox (Mozilla variant). It doesn't
happen when I use OffbyOne, a simple freeware browser that doesn't interpret
Javascript. Nor does it happen at all sites -- typically, just some
commercial sites.

Any idea what's happening and how to correct it? Is it simply poor coding in
the part of the website?

M

<<M>> wrote:

I'm new here and hoping some wizard here can answer my question or point me
in the right direction.

Some web sites I visit appear garbled. Usually at the top of the page there
is a lot of gibberish. An examination of this gibberish reveals that it is
Javascript source code that is being rendered as on-screen, non-wrapped text
and that overlays the site underneath, i.e. rather than reading the script
AS script the browser is reading it as text.

I'm using IE6 on a Win98SE system. I have installed the latest Java VM from
Sun. The problem also occurs with Firefox (Mozilla variant). It doesn't
happen when I use OffbyOne, a simple freeware browser that doesn't interpret
Javascript. Nor does it happen at all sites -- typically, just some
commercial sites.

Any idea what's happening and how to correct it? Is it simply poor coding in
the part of the website?

M

can you give an example site?


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Neo Human Calibrated for Gratification

"<<M>>" <mike004 (AT) mailinator (DOT) com> wrote

I'm new here and hoping some wizard here can answer my question or point
me
in the right direction.

Some web sites I visit appear garbled. Usually at the top of the page
there
is a lot of gibberish. An examination of this gibberish reveals that it is
Javascript source code that is being rendered as on-screen, non-wrapped
text
and that overlays the site underneath, i.e. rather than reading the script
AS script the browser is reading it as text.

[snip]

I'm sure most replies you get are going to ask for a sample URL...

--
Mabden

"Weyoun the Dancing Borg" <blah (AT) blah (DOT) blah> wrote

M>> wrote:

Some web sites I visit appear garbled.
Any idea what's happening and how to correct it? Is it simply poor
coding in
the part of the website?


can you give an example site?

As an example, this is the site for Web Dwarf, a freeware WYSIWYG HTML
editor. The few words of gibberish are:

{setVisibility("hidden");

Looking at the source code this appears about half-way through the page.
As I mentioned though this text isn't rendered by OffbyOne.

http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

Some web sites I visit appear garbled.
Any idea what's happening and how to correct it? Is it simply poor
coding in
the part of the website?


can you give an example site?

As an example, this is the site for Web Dwarf, a freeware WYSIWYG HTML
editor. The few words of gibberish are:

{setVisibility("hidden");

Looking at the source code this appears about half-way through the page.
As I mentioned though this text isn't rendered by OffbyOne.

http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

This might have something to do with it:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...cts%2Fdwarf%2F

Also this:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...usermedium=all

- Kathy

<<M>> wrote:

"Weyoun the Dancing Borg" <blah (AT) blah (DOT) blah> wrote in message
news:Ya7wc.192$Gc1.15 (AT) newsfe3-gui (DOT) ..

M>> wrote:


Some web sites I visit appear garbled.
Any idea what's happening and how to correct it? Is it simply poor

coding in

the part of the website?


can you give an example site?


As an example, this is the site for Web Dwarf, a freeware WYSIWYG HTML
editor. The few words of gibberish are:

{setVisibility("hidden");

Looking at the source code this appears about half-way through the page.
As I mentioned though this text isn't rendered by OffbyOne.

http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

*shrugs*

works for me

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Neo Human Calibrated for Gratification

Problem solved.
It has something to do with Web Washer, a freeware Internet filter program.
When I bypass it, the site looks clean.
I think Web Washer operates something like Proxomitron, re-writing the page
on the fly. It has an option to ignore Javascript and the problem is there
I'm sure.
Thanks all for the assist. . .

M