The problems and annoyances I get with Netscrap6 arent so much javascript problems but due to its numerous bugs - especially in the DOM stuff. For example:
Fields that arent submitted because the element is display: none (fixed in mozilla but the netscape crew refused to fix it in 6 despite having a patch because of their 'rush to market') which makes doing collapsing widgets, tabpanes and such like a nighmare. (This one really bugs me as I have to support NS6 and this really stuffs things up. Had to put code branching in numerous places so that non-ns6 users wont have to put up with the poor quality widgets that I have to implement to make the app functional in 6! http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34297 - to get a widget working in IE and mozilla is a few hours, then another 3 or 4 to find a way of doing the degraded NS6 version. (which given I estimate our total number of NS6 users will be somewhere in the order of 0 its kinda painful) ) Tons of css stuff that simply isnt implemented properly if at all, Crashes when you try to use removeChild() on a node, Crashes if you leave it running overnight, Crashes on exit most times, Crashes when mercury is aligned with neptune, etc... ..and it is very very sloooooow and heavy (even when you switch off its ugly skins) Mozilla on the other hand is not too bad at all and most things work in it - and where they dont its cos I was following IE and not the standards. -----Original Message----- From: Kwok Peng Tuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] JavaScript Debugger For Client-Side Validation I had that same problem once. I fixed it by getting the developer guide from Netscape and wrote my javascript to their spec. Then my javascript for ie and netscape as well as mozilla worked. The javascript was a simple script to transfer the contents of one multiple select box to another. Andrew Hill wrote: >I find I have to spend *ages* doing wierd workarounds and hacks for simple >things that work fine in IE and Mozilla but are completely broken in >Netscape 6... Thank heavens I dont need to support 4.x > >-----Original Message----- >From: Niesen, Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 03:38 >To: Struts Users Mailing List >Subject: RE: [OT] JavaScript Debugger For Client-Side Validation > > >You guys can bash IE all you want but until about 6 months ago IE and >Netscape 4.7 were the only games in town for hard-core DTHML applications. >Being standards compliant is worthless if the standards don't contain the >features you need. Mozilla and Opera finally figured that out and started >providing some real competition. The new wave of browsers (Phoenix 0.5, >Netscape 7.0, and Opera 7.01) will finally have a shot at reducing IE's >market share. I still spend the majority of my time working around bugs and >quirks in the non-IE browsers but gap the is finally shrinking. > > > -----Original Message----- >From: Dan Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:00 PM >To: Struts Users Mailing List >Subject: Re: [OT] JavaScript Debugger For Client-Side Validation > >MOZILLA! There isn't a person I have introduced to mozilla, both >microsoft lovers and haters alike, that do not swear by mozilla now. >If tab browsing, dom inspector, javascript console or javascript >debugger doesn't catch your interest, then you are just not >interested in software. Mozilla rocks. I rest my case. > >Dan > >-- >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >Daniel Allen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://www.mojavelinux.com/ >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >[Frodo]: "I wish it need not have happened in my time." >[Gandalf]: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. >But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is >what we do with the time that is given to us.' >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
