Hello Folks!

framework/example of the new site and problem (problem best viewed using IE7) : http://www.captainchicken.com/werk/sliding_layer1.html

Does anybody have any ideas how to workaround, bypass, or otherwise skip the aforementioned redundancy without going to each and every house that wants to access my sites and resetting their IE security settings myself?

I was given a computer running Windows XP Pro SP2 here recently. It's been years since I had time to update one of my sites and get things running, some of my JavaScripts worked only in IE6. Now I discover the code I've been using for some years is not even considered "real" in IE7.

Searching for some answers, I found a base code on Dynamic Web Coding (www.dyn-web.com) which works in all browsers except Opera. Not really a problem, I don't even know anyone who uses Opera, but I keep getting the message bar in IE7 telling me I have been protected from whatever evils can descend on my computer from, iframe, imagemaps, and who knows what else?

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I cannot load the html file that holds the map information in IE7. All of 20 short lines of code. A dialog/warning shows up stating "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options."

I spent versions 4.5 through 9 finding out why my "Slideout scrolling menu with graphics" wasn't working in Netscape (I'm not trying to be facetious, Microsoft got in a tiff with Netscape again over the JavaScript standard, now they only support "J"script.). Now that I have a chance to work out the bugs, I have to contend with Microsoft paranoia. I would just go with text and some other format in the menu, but one site I need to update is a painting site, and graphics intensive due to the nature of viewing images.

I really quit using IE years and switched to FireFox, but I can't convince everyone who visits my website to make the same change. Actually I don't think most of the people who want to go to my sites would know how. All I can see is my site being reduced to a drab, straight, collection of pages with dancing baloney to jazz it up.

Are you having the problem with your local copy? Because the problem doesn't exist on the copy you uploaded.

If so, add your local hard drive as a Trusted Site and you'll be all set.

The problem isn't with my code, it's with the fact that Microsoft has made my code unreachable by people like my father, who can't get it in his head to update his anti-virus until he sends me another worm in my Email.

The version of IE that ships with Windows Vista blocks all the scripts I write. I can't explain to everyone what to do in order to turn off the prompts, they would either be unwilling or intimidated by it's technicality. There has to be a way around this or else the site I would build would be bland text with animations to make it look "cool."

I didn't say it was with your code. I said it might have been with your local copy.

I don't get the error with IE7 on the copy you uploaded to the server. If it's your local copy, it's because IE blocks any local files by default.

ADAM, I know that. If you finish reading the posts, you will see the problem is with the same thing you keep telling me to do. I could post instructions to my pages, but nobody would understand, or be too worried to use my site. If they did understand, like you, I wouldn't need to ask.

Maybe I should be posting this in JavaScripts.

I don't get a problem either with the site, in IE6 or 7

even when putting the security levels up a level it still ran with no warnings or prompts.

It won't matter where you post it. You can post it in Javascript and get the exact same answer.

Hirst and I didn't get the error on a remote copy on IE6 or 7. 99 times out of 100, the person gets the error on a local copy. Unless you're distributing the site on a CD or something, then you've got nothing to worry about.

If you're getting a security error on a remote copy, then you've probably got a deeper security issue or a misconfiguration within IE. There's nothing wrong with your code such that you would get this error. If you ask in Javascripts, you may get the same answer but you won't get a better one.

I agree with Adam and chrishirst, it all works fine from a remote copy of IE7. If performing a local test I often find some errors, then when uploaded to my testing server, or web server it's OK.

Well, now I look like a fool.

I checked my webpage history just to be sure, I brought up that page from the site 3 times Sunday, twice Monday, and this is the first time I didn't get the infobar. When I load a page from my disk, I get the error. Hmmm.

Now I know why I couldn't find anything about this on Google. Thank you all. Sorry to take up everyones time.

No problem...as long as you learned the most important lesson of all: LISTEN TO HIRST AND I. WE ARE YOUR GODS.

Seriously, I'm not 100% sure why IE does that. The only thing I can think of is to keep downloaded applications from being run off of local copies of sites. Hirst may have more insight on this than I do, though.

This may explain why, essentially local file system objects are blocked.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649488.aspx