On 18 Apr 2002, at 16:32, Nathan wrote:

> <David>
> >Of course, I don't see any content on the page besides
> >quote and the nicely-done M-A YF nav bar. From
> >looking at the source, I guess there isn't any content yet?
> 
> Right. :)  I figured I'd try to solve the problem before I complicate it
> with more stuff.

My goodness - someone who takes a rational approach 
to solving problems! ;-)

> >Don't be confused. Neither IE5 nor Opera 5, nor earlier
> >versions of NS, are as standards-compliant as IE6,
> >Mozilla, and NS6. I expect a number of scripts
> >(especially older ones) to break on the new browsers.
> >So something that works in IE5/NS4/Opera 5 might not
> >necessarily work in the new browsers.
> 
> I would expect the same, however, Netscape isn't even
> loading the external javascript file, much less tyring
> to do anything with it. (I tried including a simple
> "alert('hi');" line at the top of the file to see if
> it was getting loaded, and it wasn't.) 

Hmmm, wasn't there a thread on this list awhile back 
about that, and it traced down to the way the external JS 
file was being referenced .. no, wait, that was an 
external CSS file not being referenced correctly. Sorry, 
we're now out of my league!

> >Doesn't seem to happen with NS6.22 on my daughter's
> >W2K system at home. Might be specific to the Mac
> >version, though - I know of one Mozilla bug that only
> >afflicts the Windows version.
> 
> Hmm. It might be a Mac Netscape 6.x bug thing. I'll
> have to go check out their site and see if they have
> anything documented about it. 

Always worth checking.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
 

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