Re: navigation bars-absent on newer version of Netscape

At 07:41 AM 4/23/2001 +0000, Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
>(Note that Explorer 5 *also* supports the old proprietary document.all DOM).
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>If you only want to do DHTML the new DOM is fairly simple. Where for Explorer you would say
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>document.all['thelayer'].style.visibility = 'visible';
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>for Netscape 6 you say
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>document.getElementById('thelayer').style.visibility = 'visible';

Tim,

This is where I got the idea that NS does its own thing -- if there is /one/ DOM for all as you said, then why do we still have to write it one way for NS6 and one way for IE5?

I admit, I don't understand it and I've been to PPK's site many, many times in an attempt to understand this. IF NS 6 is supporting the W3C DOM, then why are we still writing it twice (3 times if you include NN)?

In my mind where logic does occasionally leave me high and dry, if there is one W3C DOM, then IE5 (or 5.5) Opera, NS 6, et al, should pick one and stick with it.

So by saying they *do their own thing* -- that's my non-tech speak for having yet a new level of code for those nifty menus that some folks just /have/ to have. I apologize for mis-representing, but even after you and PPK tried to explain it to me again, it still looks like one of them is doing something to make my life difficult.

Tamara

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