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URGENT Help needed on JavaScript.

 
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Hi,

I have a javascript which works on Mozilla, Netscape 7.0 and IE. But it doesnt work on Netscape 4.8. I have pasted my code below. Any help is appreciated.

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Praveen

NOTE: Please do a global change "<" and ">"


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[ August 25, 2004: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]
 
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I persoanally would not waste my tiume with Netscape 4 since it is an outdated browser that does not support any new methods in DOM, it lacks CSS support, etc.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/javascript/advanceddoms.html

So if you want to waste the rest of you day with conditional statements converting things to layer object then you can do that.

Eric
 
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Thanks for your response. But I had to do this as one of our customer uses the legacy browser. So there is no choice for me. Can some one please help me.
 
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That link shows you the layer tag. I bet that is what you are going to have to deal with.

I do not think they have the style attribute either and I do not think display is supported.

I have not coded for Netscape 4 in over a year so I do not remember all of the little things that it does not support.

You might be better off detecting the browser and using a different script.
It will save you from having the modern browsers having to sort through all of the junk that you are going to have to create for this browser.

Start your code off in small chunks and see if you can get it to work. Converting the whole thing in one chunk will not work.

Eric
 
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Perhaps a simpler solution would be to point your customer to Netscape's site where they can download the latest browser, with all its new features, for free. I'm sure that your customer must be pretty frustrated already that a large proportion of sites he visits look awful, or don't work at all, in his browser of choice...

Personally I believe that would be time better spent than coding specially for one customer who uses Netscape 4. It shouldn't be a hard sell. You have a choice.

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