Revlet behaving badly in Safari

[Richmond Mathewson]

Kevin Stallibrass wrote:
> I have a small (test) revlet that gets a folder path using the standard
> answer folder statement. The app works fine as a standalone on both Win
> XP/Vista and OSX 10.5.7 
>
> However, building the app as a revlet gives me a problem with OSX 10.5.7 and
> Safari in that when the answer folder script is run, the correct dialog
> appears BEHIND the safari browser. Each time the code is run, another dialog
> appears, again behind the Safari window. The last of these dialogs can be
> closed but there is no way I can get rid of the earlier ones without
> restarting. Exactly the same thing happen with any command that causes an OS
> window to appear including when using   do "something"as Applescript  so  I
> presume this must a global thing that I'm missing
>
> There are no issues with the revlet running on XP/Vista with IE
>
>
> If you care to look, http://www.roberthorneprofiles.co.uk/apps/test.html  -
> try the 'Set' button but only press it once if you don't want to risk
> dialogs that won't close
>
>
> Your thoughts appreciated
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin Stallibrass
>
> Colour Management Specialist
>
>  
>   
'Thoughts" . . . Humpf!  On my G4 Mac as soon as I go to a page
with a revlet I see the mysterious RRE.app pop up in my Dock;

I say 'mysterious' because it appeared before I had downloaded
the web plug-in.

Safari then "stops responding" and has to be Forced to Quit.

Now, what is interesting is that on going to your webpage with
Firefox (still on the Mac; reaching across to turn on the Linux
box as I write) the mysterious RRE.app doesn't launch, but
Firefox still "plays silly buggers" and has to be forced to quit.

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Hey-Ho, so much for Mac, let's have a go with Linux:

I have a Pentium 4  1Ghz 512MB RAM 'thing' that runs
Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS . . . frankly I'm a little in love with it as,
normally, it functions extremely smoothly.

Ooooh . . . asks me for the revWeb plugin . . .here goes:

right, installed the plugin, restarting Firefox:

Umm . . . 'Authorisation Required'. . .  That could be a bit of a 'turn-off'
as it might make people think of viruses and trojans.

Clicked 'Once'

'Finished stack download' - really? where did it download the stack? do 
I want
stacks downloaded to my hard disk when I have absolutely no information in
advance about what they are going to get up to?

And the thing doesn't work" just a big, grey rectangle.

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Sorry about the 'poisonous' comments; but I do wonder slightly about some
aspects of the above.