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Windows Forum / Internet Explorer / General Topics / October 2007Reporting Web Page Errors
IE7 will detect errors in web pages - Yellow triangle with exclanation mark in bottom left corner - and if you hit the Details button you get some useful information about the problem. Unfortunately you can't highlight, copy & paste this report into an E-mail to the relevant webmaster. Better still, would be a button that copied the report to the clipboard so it could be pasted into an E-mail to the webmaster. Even better, would be if IE7 could find the contact address for the site's webmaster and automatically create an E-mail containing the error report and any other useful information, so that in one click the webmaster could be notified of any problems. Hi Duncan, The Debug Bar will do much of that functionallity. http://www.debugbar.com Most web sites do not follow the standards and do not set default email accounts for postmaster and abuse. Alot of scripting errors are caused by firewalls and hosts blocking of external scripts, but by far the biggest reason is slack testing by web designers who refuse to test for cross browser compatibilities, so it is hard to tell if an error has been caused by a client setting or the loose nut holding the keyboard at the server. Regards. > IE7 will detect errors in web pages - Yellow triangle with exclanation > mark [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=e9ba b5db-03bd-46d1-91b8-6d2f59c63d64&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general > IE7 will detect errors in web pages - Yellow triangle with exclanation > mark [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > report to the clipboard so it could be pasted into an E-mail to the > webmaster. Hi, You could always do an ALT||Print Screen to capture an image of the dialog box you are referring to, and then open up your favorite image program and click on "Edit||Paste" or "Edit||Paste as new Image"(depending on your image software). You can then save the image of the dialog box and send it as an attachment to your email. Good luck, Donald Anadell > Even better, would be if IE7 could find the contact address for the site's > webmaster and automatically create an E-mail containing the error report [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=e9ba b5db-03bd-46d1-91b8-6d2f59c63d64&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general I hear what you're saying, but it would be just as easy for Microsoft to make it possible to highlight - copy and paste the contents of the text box within that Page Error dialogue box. Better still they could include a Copy button on the dialogue box that copied the contents of the text box and possibly included the URL from the top, so that if a webmaster E-mail address was found a simple message explaining the problems and page could be sent.  SignatureDuncan "Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad as what passes for ordinary living." (Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002) www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 >> IE7 will detect errors in web pages - Yellow triangle with exclanation mark >> in bottom left corner - and if you hit the Details button you get some useful [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=e9ba b5db-03bd-46d1-91b8-6d2f59c63d64&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general >I hear what you're saying, Hi Duncan, I mentioned the screen capture method because I've always been a firm believer in the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, especially when it comes to error dialog boxes >but it would be just as easy for Microsoft to make it possible to >highlight - copy and paste the contents of the text box within that Page >Error dialogue box. There is a way to capture the text only in one of those dialog boxes, a rather convoluted method at best but I will detail it to you here. 1. When you see one of those Exclamation marks(!) in the lower left side of the Status bar as depicted here: http://users.mikrotec.com/danadell/wwwpages/test/errorbox1.html 2. Double clicking on the Exclamation mark(!) will bring up the Error Dialog box as depicted here: http://users.mikrotec.com/danadell/wwwpages/test/errorbox2.html 3. Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard and use your Left Mouse button to click on the Dialog box so that everything is selected as depicted here: http://users.mikrotec.com/danadell/wwwpages/test/errorbox3.html 4. Now hit CTRL + V to copy the selection to the Clipboard. 5. In the document you wish to paste the text hit CTRL + C to copy the contents of the clipboard into the document. The resulting paste operation should look something like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Line: 2 Char: 11 Error: Invalid character Code: 0 URL: http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=atl&m=8&y=2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good luck, Donald Anadell I tried these suggestions to the letter-it works till #5 to copy it . I would have pasted the "error on this page" here , but the Edit is greyed out Cut,Copy,Paste. However, I now contend, that it is IE7 itself-somewhere as these "Error on Page Messages" are popping up on every page every time a new page comes up. I have visited HPackard for this computer and it happens on their sites/pages also and they say it is an "old computer" and that I should get a new one---I Recently installed a new hard drive (one month old)and reinstalled XP HOME Edition SP2----the problem is consistent at the turn of every page/site. I am a novice, but the observation is consistent . Wish I could help .-- 10-29/07 Stars Over the Hill > >I hear what you're saying, > Hi Duncan, [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > > Donald Anadell Don got his Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V mixed up. Ctrl-C = Copy Ctrl-V = Paste >I tried these suggestions to the letter-it works till #5 to copy it . I >would [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] >> URL: >> http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=atl&m=8&y=2007 Thanks Frank, I'm going to have to hire a proof reader before clicking the Send button:) Donald Anadell > Don got his Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V mixed up. > Ctrl-C = Copy [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] >>> URL: >>> http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=atl&m=8&y=2007 >I tried these suggestions to the letter-it works till #5 to copy it . I >would > have pasted the "error on this page" here , but the Edit is greyed out > Cut,Copy,Paste. Hi Sohill, Thanks for pointing out the faux pas(typo) in my post. Step #4 should read CTRL + C, and Step #5 should read CTRL + V Donald Anadell > However, I now contend, that it is IE7 itself-somewhere as these "Error on > Page Messages" are popping up on every page every time a new page comes [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] >> >> Donald Anadell |
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