Re: navigation bars-absent on newer version of Netscape

Netscape have NOT done 'their own thing' with the DOM!  In fact, they've
stopped doing their own thing.  The DOM in Netscape 6 complies with the W3C
specifications.

Specifically, in version 4 of the major browsers, you might refer to the top
position of an element using:

document.whateverElement.top (for Netscape)

document.all.whateverElement.style.top


In the newest, standard compliant versions, this is changed to:

document.getElementById('whateverElement').style.top


Netscape have developed the new version to adhere more closely with
standards.  This includes loosing much of the horrible old proprietary
stuff, such as <layer> tags.

The code I've detailed will work in all newest browsers, including IE5 and
Opera.  It's not just a Netscape 6 specific.

You can easily detect browser support for the standard DOM in your JS by
asking:

if (document.getElementById)


Hope this helps,

Tim




http://www.timbooker.com/




----- Original Message -----
From: "Tamara" <Tamara(at)abbeyink.com>
To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: navigation bars-absent on newer version of Netscape


At 01:35 PM 4/22/2001 -0700, Justin H. wrote:
>They're not supporting the <.LAYER> tag, which was a Communicator
>proprietary tag.  They do continue to support <.DIV> type layers.

NS 6 has done it's own thing with the DOM and I don't understand DOM very
well. The one person that can come close to explaining it so I understand it
is Peter-Paul Koch who usually replies to posts like these.

Since he hasn't yet, http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html -- there's lots
of stuff in there about the DOM, cross-browser issues, etc.

Another favorite spot of mine is http://www.bratta.com/ -- he has plenty of
dhtml in there and it is amazing (yes, it's dhtml and /not/ flash). Some of
his scripts don't have NS 6 fixes yet, but check the forum -- I picked up a
wonderful menu script that works in all but some Netscape flavors for Mac
and I think that's because of the DTD I used.

For issues pertaining to Macs and Netscape and rendering DTDs in strict v.
bug mode, well that's another link altogether which is at
http://developer.apple.com/internet/_html/doctype.html.

Having fun yet??

FWIW,
<tamara />

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