using this example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaS cript" TYPE="text/javascript">
var rnd = Math.ceil(Math. random()*10);
document.write( rnd);
if(rnd > 5){
document.write( '<br><iframe src="http://www.yahoo.com"> </iframe>');
}else{
document.write( '<br><iframe src="http://www.google.com" ></iframe>');
}
</SCRIPT>
</body>
</html>
This simple code writes an IFRAME element with a random src attribute
(Google , yahoo).
The code works fine over IE, but have a strange behavior on Fire Fox
1.5
It seems that the first src chosen is the dominate one and would not
replace it self when reloading the page (F5).
Any workaround?
26  3226 
oops ... It seems that IE is doing the same scenario.
help?
here is an IE Workaround
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaS cript" TYPE="text/javascript">
var rnd = Math.ceil(Math. random()*10);
document.write( rnd);
var f = document.create Element("iframe ");
f.id = "frm"
document.body.a ppendChild(f)
if(rnd > 5){
document.getEle mentById("frm") .src =
"http://www.google.com" ;
}else{
document.getEle mentById("frm") .src = "http://www.yahoo.com";
}
</SCRIPT>
</body>
</html>
still dose not work on firefox
HELP
sh************* @gmail.com wrote: using this example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
You should include the system identifier (URL of the DTD), Quirks Mode is
triggered otherwise:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
[...]
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaS cript" TYPE="text/javascript">
You can safely omit the `language' attribute, then declare HTML 4.01 Strict.
var rnd = Math.ceil(Math. random()*10);
document.write( rnd);
if(rnd > 5){
document.write( '<br><iframe src="http://www.yahoo.com"> </iframe>');
^^ }else{
document.write( '<br><iframe src="http://www.google.com" ></iframe>');
^^
ETAGO delimiters must be escaped in HTML `script' elements.
}
</SCRIPT>
</body>
</html>
This simple code writes an IFRAME element with a random src attribute
(Google , yahoo). The code works fine over IE, but have a strange
behavior on Fire Fox 1.5
It seems that the first src chosen is the dominate one
While I have been writing this, now I have read both your original posting
and your two followups. And the question occurred to me:
Do you really understand (the math of) random numbers?
The first branch should not be dominant. `rnd' can assume one of the
integer values 1 to 10 (because Math.random() returns IEEE-754 doubles x
from x = 0 to x < 1, and Math.ceil() returns the ceiling of its argument as
a IEEE-754 double). So the first condition is true iff `rnd' assumes one
of the values 6 to 10, that are 5 out of 10. Therefore, the statistical
probability of that event is 0.5 (or 50% or 1:2) as is the statistical
probability of the (opposite) event that `rnd' assumes one of the values 1
to 5.
However, probability is what can be observed only with a _large_ number of
repetitions of a random experiment. (This is the [Weak] Law of Large
Numbers that states, loosely speaking, that the relative frequency of an
event converges in a limit called the probability of that event as the
repetitions of the corresponding random experiment approach [positive]
infinity.)
So it is entirely possible (even though `rnd' is a computed random number
which differ from real random numbers), although not probable, that with
nine or nine hundred thousand repetitions of the experiment under the same
start conditions (in your case no-cache reloads, see below) the first
branch of the code is used each time, without violating this law.
The only reason why the probability of X=6..10 (X being the outcome of the
random experiment) could be greater than the probability of X=1..5 here is
that Math.random() could return 1 (which it should not according to
ECMAScript, but earlier Opera implementations are known for that). In that
case (X={1, 2, ..., 9, 10, ceil(1*10)}), the event X > 5 ({6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
10}) would occur with a probability of 6:11 and the opposite event (1 <= X
<= 5) would have to occur with a probability of only 5:11. However,
JavaScript (as implemented in Firefox) is not known to have this particular
bug in its Math.random() implementation.
That explained, you can simplify your little random experiment a lot:
var rnd = Math.random(); // still prone to the bug described above, though
// ...
if (rnd > 0.5)
{
// ...
}
else
{
// ...
}
Furthermore, you should not use consecutive calls of document.write.
Accumulate the strings to be written instead and write them once, e.g.
var rnd = Math.random(); // still prone to the bug described above, though
var a = [rnd, '<br>'];
if (rnd > 0.5){
a.push('<iframe src="http://www.yahoo.com"> <\/iframe>');
}
else
{
a.push('<iframe src="http://www.google.com" ><\/iframe>');
}
document.write( a.join(""));
and would not replace it self when reloading the page (F5).
Any workaround?
Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R, that overrides the browser cache.
PointedEars
hi Thomas, thanks for the fast reply.
All your remarks were contributing.
unfortunately the problem is more complex.
the main issue is that:
when writing the IFRAME dynamically (use example 1) the first "src" is
somehow cached in the browser DOM.
allow me to explain a scenario:
1) Lets say the page loads and the variable rnd is set to 1
2) The documet.write() is called with Google src IFRAME
3) All is good the Google frame is shown
4) F5 ... refreshing
6) the page loads and the variable rnd is set to 9
7) The documet.write() is called with Yahoo src IFRAME
8) ERROR the Google frame is displayed
furthermore if we write "javascript:ale rt(document.bod y.innerHTML)" in
the address bar we can see that the IFRAME src is set correctly and
still the browser displays the wrong frame.
Any New idea?
;-)
sh************* @gmail.com wrote: [...]
when writing the IFRAME dynamically (use example 1) the first "src" is
somehow cached in the browser DOM.
As I said. And it is not cached in the browser DOM, but in
the browser cache :)
allow me to explain a scenario:
1) Lets say the page loads and the variable rnd is set to 1
2) The documet.write() is called with Google src IFRAME
3) All is good the Google frame is shown
4) F5 ... refreshing
As I said, if you refresh with F5 you use the browser cache;
with Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R you do not.
6) the page loads and the variable rnd is set to 9
7) The documet.write() is called with Yahoo src IFRAME
8) ERROR the Google frame is displayed
I observed the same behavior in
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060209
Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0. 1-2 Firefox/1.5.0.1
only that I also observed that when the first time the yahoo.com homepage
was displayed in the iframe, refresh with the F5 key resulted in displaying
yahoo.com even though rnd <= 5 (or <= 0.5; should have displayed the
google.com homepage).
It does not matter if the markup is Valid or not (escaping ETAGOs), if the
`language' attribute is used or not, if the document is rendered in Quirks
Mode or Standards Compliance Mode, if Math.ceil(Math. random() * 10) or
Math.random() is used, if document.write( ) is called one time or more
(although all of those /are/ valid concerns), if document.write( ) is used
or document.append Child(). With Ctrl+R/F5 the previously generated
`iframe' element is used no matter the computed value of `rnd'.[1]
With overriding the browser cache as I described above and before,
this is not the case here. I am pretty sure it is the same with IE.
I have observed the same behavior in Gecko-based browsers (particularly
Mozilla/5.0 Navigator and Firefox) with the value of form controls before,
for example; with cached refresh (Ctrl+R or F5) they retain the changed
value, without using the cache (Ctrl+Shift+R or Ctrl+F5), they show the
initial value. Scripts are refreshed always nevertheless (this may be
due to default use of Cache-Control on my servers, though).
furthermore if we write "javascript:ale rt(document.bod y.innerHTML)" in
the address bar we can see that the IFRAME src is set correctly and
still the browser displays the wrong frame.
Apparently the `innerHTML' property partly does not use the browser cache.
Fascinating.
Any New idea?
;-)
No, the old one is still the solution to the problem. At least here.
HTH
PointedEars
P.S.: <URL:http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsrep ly/>
___________
[1] And presumably just to show me that I understood statistical probability
properly, the Universe decided to give me a value greater than 0.5 eight
times in a row while was testing this <g/>
> when writing the IFRAME dynamically (use example 1) the first "src" is somehow cached in the browser DOM.
You can avoid caching by appending an everchanging time to the URL of
the src.
Specifically:
document.getEle mentById("frm") .src =
"http://www.google.com? ts' + (new Date()).getTime ()
Ann
Giggle Girl wrote: when writing the IFRAME dynamically (use example 1) the first "src" is
somehow cached in the browser DOM.
You can avoid caching by appending an everchanging time to the URL of
the src.
Specifically:
document.getEle mentById("frm") .src =
"http://www.google.com? ts' + (new Date()).getTime ()
What you are proposing means to access an `iframe' element that was created
and appended/included _before_ which is not the same thing as the OP tried.
With your approach, it would not even be necessary to "append an
everchanging time" (which would be a Bad Thing anyway).
Although I still do not understand why there is a problem at all (a cached
refresh is a /cached/ refresh) this approach (modifying the `iframe'
element afterwards) would lead to a solution. I would prefer to use the
`frames' collection then, though.
PointedEars
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:39:48 +0200, Giggle Girl <mi*******@gmai l.com>
wrote: when writing the IFRAME dynamically (use example 1) the first "src" is
somehow cached in the browser DOM.
You can avoid caching by appending an everchanging time to the URL of
the src.
Specifically:
document.getEle mentById("frm") .src =
"http://www.google.com? ts' + (new Date()).getTime ()
Almost the same idea - the use of own cgi script, which then calls other
sites:
src="http://....some_script .cgi?site=http://www.google.com. .."
Vladas
Vladas Saulis wrote: [...] Giggle Girl [...] wrote: when writing the IFRAME dynamically (use example 1) the first "src" is
somehow cached in the browser DOM.
You can avoid caching by appending an everchanging time to the URL of
the src.
Specifically:
document.getEle mentById("frm") .src =
"http://www.google.com? ts' + (new Date()).getTime ()
Almost the same idea - the use of own cgi script, which then calls other
sites:
src="http://....some_script .cgi?site=http://www.google.com. .."
"Appending an everchanging time" was unnecessary already, now this is
complete overkill.
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