[Javascript] NN6 DOM

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>At your excellent site my NN4.7 browser drew this message "If this is your 
>default browser, it might be time to upgrade it to a more standards 
>compliant one."
>
>I hold no particular brief for NN or NN4.7  I also use IE5.5
>My point is really, what is the alternative to NN4.7? NN6??

Don't know. I thought long and hard about this and finally decided to 
support the Upgrade Initiative because it is necessary. On Mac I advise 
Explorer 5, on Linux Konqueror, but I'm not sure about Windows.

>Personally I regard use of NN6 as foolhardy and to be discouraged.

Some truth in that <g>.

>I notice that at http://home.netscape.com/download/ NN4.77 is offered as an 
>alternative to NN6.01 which does not exactly inspire one with confidence.

Really? Didn't know that.

>As for Opera I found that :
>  - it treated frameset definitions differently from IE5 or NN4.7
>especially in respect of defining invisible frames.

Its handling of frames is much improved now, so I'm quite content. I rarely 
use invisible frames so I don't know how Opera handles them.

>  - it failed to run (without reporting an error) sections of code that 
>worked well in the other browsers

Which ones?

>and are IMHO conservatively written, without making use of advanced 
>features.

That's deliberate. I want each script to work on as many browsers as 
possible.  If that means making the script conservative, so be it. My script 
are meant for day-to-day problems in current web development, which means 
Netscape 4 compatibility.

I think long and hard before including a script that doesn't work in 
Netscape 4 (there's only one outside the Version 5 category).

ppk
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