[thelist] Yahoo! like HTML textarea

Norman Beresford n.beresford at anansi.co.uk
Mon Aug 6 11:36:51 CDT 2001


Cheers for the warning Jeff.

I must admit that I've not actually looked that closely at that link.  I was
looking for a similar solution and found that page, but never used it (the
client fell through).

Norman

----- Original Message -----
From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Yahoo! like HTML textarea


> eric & norman,
>
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > From: Norman Beresford
> >
> > And the URL is...
> >
> > http://www.siteexperts.com/tips/contents/ts12/page1.asp
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
>
> just a word of caution --
>
> DO NOT USER THIS VERSION IF YOU WISH TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH ANYTHING NEWER
> THAN IE5.0.
>
> sorry to yell, but it's that serious.  microsoft chose to support a
> different implementation in ie5.5 and newer and did not support the
previous
> version you're seeing at the address above.  prior to this change i spent
a
> great deal of time building my own implementation that had all sorts of
> features.  now i'm screwed if i want to support newer browsers.  i've
gotta
> spend all that time rebuilding all those applications to use the new
> implementation.
>
> also, don't expect this to work in anything but win/ie.  no mac and no
unix.
>
> good luck,
>
> .jeff
>
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> jeff at members.evolt.org
> http://members.evolt.org/jeff/
>
>
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