opera -- was: Re: downloading

[Joel Hammer]

Actually, I tried mozilla, which came with my libranet distro, also
galeon and konqueror.  They behaved like netscape (ie. choked on some
of the javascript) so I didn't look into the event handler situation
with these browsers.
Joel

> 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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