WebRespond: Bug & Problem Report

This document will be updated as bugs are reported to the author. If you observe a problem with WebRespond, that is not reported here, please email the author at gollmers@cedarville.edu.

1.  The scrollbars disappear when running WebRespond in Internet Explorer.

When WebRespond encounters a question that is small enough to fit in the question space provided, the scrollbars are turned off.  If the next question is big enough to require scroll bars WebRespond turns them on.  In Internet Explorer v6.0 the scroll bars do not turn back on.  There is currently no fix available to correct this problem.  The work around for this problem is to use the Java plug-in instead of the default Java virtual machine.  Sample code for incorporating the plug-in is provided in the Quiz Web Page Document.
2.  When the scrollbars are turned off, an odd color remains where the scrollbars were in Netscape Navigator.
When the scroll bars are turned off, WebRespond should repaint the whole question area giving it a uniform background color or a uniform tiling of the background image.  In Netscape v4.7 the scroll bar areas are not repainted and are colored with the default background color.  There is currently no fix available to correct this problem.  The work around for this problem is to use the Java plug-in instead of the default Java virtual machine.  Sample code for incorporating the plug-in is provided in the Quiz Web Page Document.