Maunually downloading file and general links problem

[Dark0ne]

Just to be clear (because it isn't). Javascript (code that sites use) and Java (code that software uses) are two separate things and are not related in any way, shape or form. Javascript is handled completely by the browser, not by Java software, and even if you uninstall Java on your PC javascript in your browser will still work. Ergo updating Java doesn't do anything to site functionality or javascript code.

 

Now it's possible a specific combination of variables and clicks on the specific pages you were visiting were causing the site to break, but without more details I can't look in to this further.

[Lisnpuppy]

I really can't supply any more detail. If I would click on say the notifications button...nothing would load..there would be no attempt by the site to "connect" to anything and the pointer would no longer be able to click on anything at all. No error message popped up regardless of the amount of time I let it sit there.

 

If I would click on a mod it would load the mod page fine..I could click on the files (and this would all work since it would load another page) and then I would click on the file to download. It would open a new tab page (regardless of the preference I set) with the server and I could pick a server then it would do the same thing. However it would not attempt to connect (so it was not a time out kind of issue) there was no "waiting to connect to nexus..blah blah) and no error message at all. I even let it sit while I made and ate dinner and nothing.

 

I would go to the mod page (which as I said was in another tab) and I would no longer be able to click on anything without refreshing the page.

 

I really don't know what else to give you. I tried everything else before this last bit. Logging out, F5, etc and nothing else helped. If you have some specific questions I would be happy to try to answer it but like I said there was never any errors and its like the page just got disabled for clicking. Everything else would look fine, it never would make a connect attempt once the "disabling" occurred.

[DrakeTheDragon]

Interesting

 

How did you do that exactly? What are anchors and how do you modify them?

Oh, I'm sorry, if this was mistaken as a fix on the user's end. It isn't. You can't do anything to fix this yourself.

I was just talking of what I learned to do on the websites I create, as this is part of my job, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, PHP and HTML coding for websites.

 

In HTML sourcecode a 'hyperlink' is created via an "Anchor" tag "<a>Text to click on</a>". This gets an "href" attribute telling it where to link to '<a href="http://www.mycoolsite.de/">Text to click on</a>', and when you click on the text it leads you to the url in the "href" attribute. However, you can also use those anchor tags to do cool fancy interactive stuff with your site via JavaScript. For example many of the "button" you see on the Nexus pages actually "aren't". They're images put into an anchor tag instead of the text to click on, so you can now click the images instead, and they have interactive functionality added to them via the "onclick" attribute, which as the name says triggers when clicked and executes the JavaScript code inside it.

 

For example the new "submit" button in the advanced search form is created by this

 

<a id="submit" class="primary" onclick="greyMe('btAsrc'); submMySearch();">


    <span>Submit</span>


</a>

Mind the "submMySearch()" function call. This calls a JavaScript function likely containing the Ajax calls to fill the search result list with what you're searching for. Also mind there's no "href" attribute, just like I prefer it.

So now, if there's a JavaScript error on the initial page load, most function such as this one are never even declared. Thus this call will not fire and clicking the button will have no reaction at all whatsoever.

 

There are however other clickable elements which "do" have an "href" attribute set,

like the "Files" tab for example:

 

<a onclick="changeMyTab(1);" href="javascript:;">Files</a>

Now, I'm unsure about the "javascript:;" url, as I for one only know "javascript://" in this place, but I take it it's more or less doing the same anyways.

 

But, very likely, those are the ones that mislink and reload the page when clicked on, if the function "changeMyTab()" was never declared or JavaScript execution in general broke beforehand by an error in the code.

 

 

And if it's of any value to the site developers, this is what I get immediately when opening the new Advanced Search page on Oblivion Nexus:

 

Fehler: peopleInChat is not defined

Quelldatei: http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/contents/Scripts/BBoC-01a12768d2fc19af864b1a5413b2b1ae.js

Zeile: 26371

And the clickability of the 4 input fields for search criteria turns into "whack a mole" for me. That is I can click my sense out of my mind by clicking on "File name contains..." and it will never turn into receiving my input,

but if I click on "Author name contains..." next, it turns into an input field. Then I can click "File name contains..." as well, but none of the others still, and once I clicked "File name contains..." I suddenly cannot click "Author name contains..." anymore. Everytime I click on the "1" clickable field, the previous clickable field becomes unclickable and another (random) one becomes clickable instead. I will not be able to click the same field again twice, either, unless I turned it clickable again by clicking the one random field that makes it clickable again first by accident.

 

Just like I said, feels like "whack a mole" a big time.

[ElMonstero29]

I really can't supply any more detail. If I would click on say the notifications button...nothing would load..there would be no attempt by the site to "connect" to anything and the pointer would no longer be able to click on anything at all. No error message popped up regardless of the amount of time I let it sit there.

 

If I would click on a mod it would load the mod page fine..I could click on the files (and this would all work since it would load another page) and then I would click on the file to download. It would open a new tab page (regardless of the preference I set) with the server and I could pick a server then it would do the same thing. However it would not attempt to connect (so it was not a time out kind of issue) there was no "waiting to connect to nexus..blah blah) and no error message at all. I even let it sit while I made and ate dinner and nothing.

 

I would go to the mod page (which as I said was in another tab) and I would no longer be able to click on anything without refreshing the page.

 

I really don't know what else to give you. I tried everything else before this last bit. Logging out, F5, etc and nothing else helped. If you have some specific questions I would be happy to try to answer it but like I said there was never any errors and its like the page just got disabled for clicking. Everything else would look fine, it never would make a connect attempt once the "disabling" occurred.

 

^^Yep, this is exactly what's happening to me! although for me, refreshing the page does nothing....and also updating java did nothing. Although dark you say that wouldn't have helped anyway?

 

Seriously right now Nexus is totally off limits to me just about everything won't work the only way I can even get to a mod's page is by going through bookmarks :(

 

I also just realized that I'm having this problem on bf3's battlelog too, but to a much lesser degree. And refreshing does help on that site

 

I checked a few other websites that I frequent. Websites with lots of clickables like: amazon, ign, hotmail. All of them worked fine

 

So this isn't just happening on the nexus but this is the only site I visit that's basically worthless to me now. like lisnpuppy said there are no error messages or anything.

 

@Dark0ne. Have you perhaps updated the source code or anything in the past couple days? As I said before this is VERY recent for me, it started 3-4 days ago.

Edited April 30, 2013 by ElMonstero29

[Lisnpuppy]

Bizarrely enough it is happening again this morning.

I tried restarting the computer and it has not helped. It is doing the exact same thing as I described before (though it worked fine up until like 5 hours ago)

 

Again I can not give more information. If there is some errors like Drake found I don't know where they are. Sorry I am not more help! :ohdear:

 

 

edit: It seems that if there is a picture I can make it work. So image links will work at least partially. Other than that its the same.

[Dark0ne]

What browser? What plugins are you using? And have you tried any other browsers?

[Lisnpuppy]

I use the latest version of firefox though I am going to try to install it again (I did use vanilla Chrome and Opera yesterday before it worked for me and it did the same thing. I have no plug ins for those.)

 

I disabled every single plug in I have (which were all up to date and I had not changed any of my plugins for some time and everything was fine until the search function update and yesterday after I posted it was working.)

 

So as of now I have no plugins enabled, if you think I should uninstall everything also to see if that helps I would gladly do so.

 

Also I see under the web browser tools/web developer/error console and I can give this information to you if you think it would tell you anything.

[Dark0ne]

If the web developer console is giving any script errors they'd be very handy, thanks.

[Lisnpuppy]

it seems there are several. Would you like me to post them all here in spoiler tags or would somewhere else be better?

[Dark0ne]

Spoiler tags would be fine.