VBscript in Web pages

[Shawn L Johnston]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:19, David Bandel wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:26:22 +1000, James McDonald
> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> > David Bandel wrote:
> > 
> > >Folks,
> > >
> > >Is there a library/program/special chickens foot I need
> > >loaded/installed/waved in order to get Firefox to run a web page that
> > >contains VBscript (Veritable Bozo? Venerable Bullshit? Vacillating
> > >Bogons? Vader Baby? script).
> > >
> > >I know a "void main", perhaps this is a "void branch"?
> > >
> > >TIA,
> > >
> > >David A. Bandel
> > >
> > >
> > nope it won't touch vbscript on linux.
> > 
> > Perhaps you could try wine and install vbscript host and firfox w32?
> > 
> > However I don't think it will work....
> > 
> > javascript is the script language of choice for firefox etc.
> > 
> > 
> 
> No choice.  This is an appliance (http://www.accxx.com/), the TA-200,
> that does VoIP. But I can't program it.  The login page comes up, I
> log in and get a blank page.  Looking at the source I see Language
> VBscript, then some code to redirect to unitinfo.html.
> 
> Changing to unitinfo.html I can see the unit info.  Go to the next
> page to program the thing and it defaults to dhcp.  Changing that to
> static is _supposed_ to get you a box to put in a static IP (but
> again, the box doesn't show up because it's in VBscript as an
> if/then).
> 
> I wrote a nastygram to the morons to send me new firmware written in
> universal Javascript.  But since I don't have millions of $$$ I have
> to find a solution to this myself.
> 
> Awaiting their answer, but not hopeful.
> 
> David A. Bandel

I'd take a look at Crossover Office, it should give you IE without
having to go to a dedicated Windows Box or installing a virtual machine
like VMware. Plus I think it ships with IE on the cd's so it should be
pretty straight forward to get going with it.


Shawn