opera -- was: Re: downloading

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/
> Read the above link.
> It lists some of opera's (6.x) problems.
>
> I wrote some complicated (for me) javascript lately for processing forms.
>
> In opera, especially annoying for me was the lack of a dblclick function,
> the inability to capture the right mouse click, and the inability to
> capture screen coordinates. These are all very important when you are
> trying to allow the user to easily navigate around a large form. In
> the end, I made compromises just because opera wouldn't support event
> handlers properly. IE did all these things, and more, with no problem.
> Every single thing I tried, and it was all done straight from the "book",
> worked on IE.
>
> I can't talk much about netscape (6.2, 7.0) or mozilla regarding event handlers,
> because they just didn't work well with my javascript. They have
> differences from opera and IE in how they view variable scope, which I
> don't have the time to sort out.
>
> Perhaps someone could experiment with mozilla to see what kind of support it
> has for DOM and event handlers and report back to the list? Simply claiming
> compliance is not convincing to me.
>
> I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me why a form array,
> produced with HTML as follows:
> <form name = "myform">
> big form
> </form>
> is not available for initialization with the onLoad event in netscape, but
> is in opera and IE. (netscape eventually recognizes the form.)
> Any why doesn't netscape support typeof? Does mozilla?

Why don't you install Mozilla and find out?  Your fear of Mozilla is
incredibly bewildering.  If you're attempting to design web
sites/applications for a broad audience, then you really ought to be
testing them against a variety of browsers.  Ignoring Mozilla on the
assumption that "its the same as Netscape-6/7.x" is really foolish.  The
reality is the opposite is far more accurate of an assumption.

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