Tic-Tech: ** Bess Problems **

From: McNamee, Judy (JMCNAMEE@seattleschools.org)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 08:26:36 PST

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    I've passed this information on to N2H2. We've generally found them to be
    responsive when provided information on specific sites where there are
    problems. I encourage anyone who has this type of difficulty to send the URL
    to the IS Help Desk so we can forward it to N2H2.

    Thanks,
    Judy
    JMCNAMEE@seattleschools.org
     -----Original Message-----
    From: Anthony Hand [mailto:anthonyh@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us]
    Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 11:06 PM
    To: TIC-TECH@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us
    Subject: Tic-Tech: ** Bess Problems **

    --- TIC-TECH message:
    Hello All,

    Here's a note I received from a tech-saavy science teacher regarding some
    very frustrating problems with the Bess Trailer.

    ===========================================================
    My 9th meteorology students had to prepare a 4-day forecast final exam for
    their city entirely during class-time yesterday (47 minutes). This means
    they had to check as many as five different web pages - so they were
    somewhat pressed for time. The BESS trailer java script was causing type
    11 errors (memory related) on my Macs, freezing up the machines and
    forcing the kids to reboot (they must have changed the script in the last
    day or two since it hasn't RECENTLY been a problem). Well, rebooting
    takes time and the kids didn't have any so we had to scramble from machine
    to machine and it was all unnecessarily upsetting and nerve wracking.
    This problem usually appears on sites that are also running java script -
    so pages don't load properly and we get several java error messages.
    There appears to be a conflict between java scripts.
    ===========================================================

    Question: If Bess has to have a trailer on each page why do they have to
    use java script or other problematic code? Just simple HTML would seem to
    be best for ensuring compatibility with the variety of browsers and
    platforms out there.

    Perhaps someone could pass this message on to relevant BESS staff.

    *** tony

            ---------------------------
            Tony Hand
            tonyh@hale.ssd.k12.wa.us
            Computer Systems Coordinator
            Nathan Hale High School
            Seattle School District
            ---------------------------

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