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certain websites (love film)request me to turn on my java script to view trailers etc, not sure if its a request from the scroll or the web sites but cant find java in my settings ? can anyone help please

It's a request from the website - The built in browser has no support for javascript, I'll take a look on mine (I have a few browsers installed) and see which ones (if any) support javascript and to what extent. I'll post back up within the hour.

The built in Browser does support JavaScript - you may need to toggle the settings on and off for it to work

Charlie is completely correct! I've just done a quick check and the built in browser seems to handle javascript re-directs, alerts and other commands without any issue.

I've just taken a look at lovefilm, especially the previews and I've found the issue you're experiencing :

<script>
document.write('<img src="/images/icons/ajax_load_black.gif" alt="loading" width="10" height="10" border="0"> loading...');
</script>
<noscript>Uh oh! If you'd like to watch our The Other Guys trailer you'll need to make sure that you've got JavaScript enabled first.</noscript>

If you keep seeing "Uh oh! If you'd like to watch our The Other Guys trailer you'll need to make sure that you've got JavaScript enabled first." then you have indeed got javascript disabled.

To enable, press the menu button on your tablet (left hand button) while you're in the browser.
click "More" on the screen.
Click "settings" on the screen
Scroll down
Click on "Enable JavaScript" to tick it.
Press the back arrow (Third key)
Reload the page.

However, the lovefilm site uses a mixture of Javascript, AJAX and Flash, the first two are supported, the latter however is not.

DJ_Steve is currently working on a 2.2 build of Android for the scroll, along with a number of others on this forum, that will have Flash support. Unfortunately 2.1 doesn't have flash support and although there have been a few .apk's floating about which install flash, it only works with flash animations/coding upto flash 6 apparently. These video players are made in flash 9 and above usually, so they won't solve the issue.

Hope this explains the situation for you.

@Kommander

Nice write up, thanks for the info

Sorry to burst the bubble but 2.2 on the scroll will not have 'full' flash support because the hardware is not there, as far as we currently know

WHAT?!?!

You're kidding? Is there no room for software emulation? - dammit! I was looking forward to that!

flash 10 was never compiled for the Scrolls CPU. We can have flash lite but that only works for stuff up to flash 8

thank you for your help and det instructions I went into my settings and found java setting which was already turned on so i guess it just wont play, but there was a small link to adobe flash player who are currently making a 2.2 android version ( think you said that in your message) so il keep a look out for in future.

Flash lite works upto flash 8 version, but it can be hit/miss and there's no hardware acceleration in the flash so it can run like a 1 legged greyhound

*sorry warped, missed your post there