[thelist] Javascript help to make it cross-platform

Sat Nov 23 03:20:01 CST 2002

Hi Evolters,

In my never-ending quest to move things away from the server side tire or
"click, wait, see, click, wait, do" I'm trying to do something nifty with
javascript to display a right side bar frame "help" bar for my users.

Here's the page:
http://dev.everybox.com/frame
in IE this works. In mozilla and chimera on the mac it's broken.

Here is frame's src:
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript1.2">
defaultconf=''
function expandf()
{
    if (document.all) {
        if (document.body.cols!="*,200")
            document.body.cols="*,200"
        else
            document.body.cols=defaultconf
    }
}
</script>
<frameset cols="*,0">
    <frame src="main" name="mainwin" frameborder="no" scrolling="auto"
noresize />
    <frame src="help" name="help" frameborder="no" noresize />
</frameset>
</html>

Here is help's src:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test page</title>
</head>
<script language="JavaScript1.2">
if (document.all)
    window.parent.defaultconf=window.parent.document.body.cols
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffcc">
<div onclick="window.parent.expandf()">[close]</div>
</body>
</html>

Any idea how I can make expandf() more crossplatform?

I'm not javascript user and the using google to diagnose javascript is
"hard" ;-/

thanks,
davidu

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