Hey folks,
I've been doing some work in JavaScript recently and have found out why
Amiga browsers are having many difficulties with JavaScript things. I have
created a JavaScript test page, which can be found on
http://www.wouterlamee.com (excuse the plain site, I don't have a lot of
time for it now ...).
First of all something about JavaScript: There are several versions of
JavaScript, starting at 1.0, going up to 1.5 or so. Version 1.0 is
effectively useless, since it lacks a lot of now-popular stuff which was
added in later versions. JavaScript 1.1 has most basic events stuff in it,
JavaScript 1.2 has added more events. JavaScript 1.3 and up have little or
no changes in the events mechanism.
The page I made basically allows you to test which JavaScript events are
supported by your browser. The results for Amiga browsers are rather
depressing:
- IBrowse 2.2r claims to support JavaScript 1.2. In the docs it simply says
JavaScript 1.2 support, it says nothing about partial support or features
left out. This browser detects absolutely no events whatsoever.
- Voyager 3.2.12. I never found which version of JavaScript Voyager supports
or to what degree, but I now know that this browser also does not support
any JavaScript events.
- AWeb, the version that comes with OS3.5. This browser claims to have
JavaScript 1.1 support. It does. As you can see on the test page, it
correctly generates and handles quite a few of the JavaScript events. It
doesn't do all events, but some events were only added in JavaScript 1.2.
I've got the latest update lying around, but haven't installed it yet. It
also claims to support JavaScript 1.1.
Anyway, I'll be toying around more with JavaScript in the coming days, so
I'll probably add some more tests soon.
W.
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