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Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?



On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:51:43AM +0200, Erez Boym wrote:
> Usually Active Pages cause Netscape to crash violently. If you ever stumbled
> across a page that every time you write it's address netscape quits, usually
> active pages are to blame.

If Netscape doesn't support it, it should ignore it.
What is 'Active Pages' anyway? There's ASP, which is an unrelated
server-side technology, and there are <OBJECT> tags with ActiveX (OLE)
objects.

> Pure DHTML is a W3 standard. You can download the standard from
> developer.netscape.com.

DHTML is not a standard but a buzzword, which I've heard first time
around when Dreamweaver 1 went beta. Such words annoy me.
It's actually positioning commands in CSS, and the Document Object Model,
which is accessible via JavaScript by different means in MSIE
and Netscape (and while Netscape only allows to move around layers
and modify images and anchors, MSIE can re-edit the pages on-the-fly).
W3C has suggested how page's contents would be made accessible
to JavaScript as a part of the DOM specs.

What Netscape publishes, both for JS and CSS, is their own
crippled specs of what THEIR product supports. Those docs can
actually serve a good guide once you begin wondering why
half of the CSS mentioned in the standard docs aren't working.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie
[http://toast.demon.co.il]

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