Electronic Resources: Troubleshooting ... and Beyond

JavaScript is a script employed in HTML documents and enables webpages to be more interactive.  This script is primarily used when HTML cannot achieve these more dynamic features.  JavaScript is a scripting language, while Java is a programming language.  As a programming language, Java creates applications that run in a virtual machine or browser. 

What is most important for the end-user to know is that they require different plug-ins.

Internet Explorer:

• Go to Tools and select Internet Options
• Click on theSecuritytab
• Click on theCustom Levelbutton to display the security options of your browser
• Scroll down the menu for theActive scriptingoption and make sure Enable is selected.
• Click OK and close this window

Firefox:

• Go to Tools
• Select Options
• Click on the tab for Content
• Make sure the box next to Enable Javascript is checked
• Click on the Advanced button for more options.  When you do this, a pop-up box will display with the following options:  
• Move or resize existing windows: Uncheck this option to disable moving and resizing windows using scripts.
• Raise or lower windows: Uncheck this option to make sure scripts cannot raise (bring to the front) or lower (send to the back) windows.
• Disable or replace context menus: Uncheck this option to prevent web pages from disabling or changing the Firefox context menu.

Safari:

• Choose Safari -> Preferences
• Click Security
• Make sure thus checkboxes is selected: Enable JavaScript.

Google Chrome:

• JavaScript is enabled by default; it is currenty not possible to disable JavaScript in Chrome.