[Javascript] NN6 DOM

[Rodney Myers]

Peter-Paul Koch wrote:

> >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.

I would _like_ it to work and I see that there is an upgrade to 6.01 which I
downloaded, but I have not yet tested. Would hate to do that on dial-up though!

> >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.
>

What version are you on?

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

The main data table of the Review section of my Shopping Basket program.


>
> >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).
>

Glad to hear it. I was in fact referring to my own work, and knowing your policy
is so similar I feel less like a dinosaur - though until very recently I was
writing code to support 3.x and still have a lot of code of that sort out there.

Rodney

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