**** MSIE and JavaScript
Jim Harris
Windows Magazine has an intresting site which puts browsers through the
paces of images, Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, fancy frames - all the bells
and wistles using the current HTML scripting.
I went through each page of the site last night (I'm using MS I.E. - latest
release) and the only 'thing' which didn't show was a Java app. which
scrolled text.
There was a link for a fix there on the page and I'll probally go back to
get it later.
Other than that everything worked which supprised me because they even go
through all the audio and video formats.
the URL for what they call the Browser Tune is:
http://www.winmag.com/flanga/browseryear.htm
I'm looking forward to the next version of Netscape. The current
competition between Netscape and MS (I think) is great because the real
winners are the individuals who use the internet and those of us who want
to present information in a manner which is not only informative, but
somewhat entertaining as well.
--
Jim Harris craf...@twave.net
http://users.twave.net/Alexander/
Alexandre Aubry <aau...@imaginet.fr> wrote in article
<01bbe3d3$33a6e1c0$3052...@alex.activnet.fr>...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if MSIE 3.x is totally compatible with
> the JavaScript Language.
> I understood that functions with Frames cannot work with MSIE, is it
true?
>
> Regards
>
> Alexandre Aubry
> Activnet, FRANCE
> http://www.activnet.fr
> aau...@activnet.fr
>
>
Alexandre Aubry
Danny Goodman
Alexandre Aubry wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if MSIE 3.x is totally compatible with
> the JavaScript Language.
> I understood that functions with Frames cannot work with MSIE, is it true?
>
There are many differences between JavaScript as implemented in MSIE 3.0
and Netscape Navigator 3.0. I have a summary of the differences at the
Support Center for my older JavaScript book. Visit
http://www.dannyg.com/update1.html, and look for the Internet Explorer
link.
Danny
"JavaScript Bible", 2nd Ed.
http://www.dannyg.com
Anthony K. Chu
On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:26:31 GMT, "Jim Harris" <craf...@twave.net>
wrote:
>Windows Magazine has an intresting site which puts browsers through the
>paces of images, Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, fancy frames - all the bells
>and wistles using the current HTML scripting.
>
>I went through each page of the site last night (I'm using MS I.E. - latest
>release) and the only 'thing' which didn't show was a Java app. which
>scrolled text.
>
Don't believe everything they say in that; let's not forget that the
magazine tends to be pro-Microsoft. They claim that "the tests involve
only 'legal,' standard HTML and focus on functions in common use
today", but most of the tests in it are still totally browser specific
and are by no means a standard by any stretch of the imagination.
>I'm looking forward to the next version of Netscape. The current
>competition between Netscape and MS (I think) is great because the real
>winners are the individuals who use the internet and those of us who want
>to present information in a manner which is not only informative, but
>somewhat entertaining as well.
>
Very true, but the real losers are the people who have to program for
the internet. Each time a new version of a browser comes out, we have
to spend days or weeks or months on it if we want to utilize the new
features and fixes in our HTML code. The reason being that we pretty
much have to adapt the new code so that it works in all current
browsers and those previous to them. And often we not only have to
worry about writing browser-specific code, they also have to be done
differently for different versions of the same browser.
>Alexandre Aubry <aau...@imaginet.fr> wrote in article
><01bbe3d3$33a6e1c0$3052...@alex.activnet.fr>...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know if MSIE 3.x is totally compatible with
>> the JavaScript Language.
>> I understood that functions with Frames cannot work with MSIE, is it
>true?
>>
No, the two implementations of the JavaScript interpreter are very
different between M$IE and Netscape. Even when you compare Netscape
2.0x to M$IE 3.0 (which, the latter claims, have the same JavaScript
implementations), there are still many thing that work in Netscape but
not in M$IE. Microsoft did a really disgusting job of trying to
reverse-engineer the JavaScript interpreter. I usually just write code
for Netscape and change everything that doesn't work in M$IE to
Netscape-only.
Anthony K. Chu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Second Year Computer Science Major http://www.webhaven.com/anthony/
University of British Columbia, Canada <anth...@unixg.ubc.ca>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mark Stone
"Alexandre Aubry" <aau...@imaginet.fr> wrote:
>Hi,
>I would like to know if MSIE 3.x is totally compatible with
>the JavaScript Language.
>I understood that functions with Frames cannot work with MSIE, is it true?
>Regards
>Alexandre Aubry
>Activnet, FRANCE
>http://www.activnet.fr
>aau...@activnet.fr
Even Navigator isn't totally compatible with the JavaScript language;
in other words, Navigator 3.0 was not made completely backwards
compatible with Navigator 2.0.
MSIE is not completely compatible either. It was designed to the
Navigator 2.0 standard, and thus suffers two problems: (1) the design
is imperfect, so there are discrepancies between Navigator 2 and IE 3,
(2) any discrepancies between Navigator 2 and 3 will also be
discrepancies between Navigator 3 and IE3.
IE4 should fix SOME of these problems, but probably not all. Netscape
and Microsoft have an agreement to jointly support an open JavaScript
standard with version 5 of their respective browsers, but this
unfortunately will not be until around June 97.
A partial list of discrepancies can be found at my Web site; new
submissions are welcome.
Mark Stone
author, "How to Program Microsoft JScript"
mst...@mkp.com
mar...@kudonet.com
http://www.kudonet.com/~markst/jscript
Mike Benchoff
Alexandre Aubry wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if MSIE 3.x is totally compatible with
> the JavaScript Language.
> I understood that functions with Frames cannot work with MSIE, is it true?
>
> Regards
>
> Alexandre Aubry
> Activnet, FRANCE
> http://www.activnet.fr
> aau...@activnet.fr
Another very helpful JavaScript object that MSIE doesn't support is
Image(). I've found it very useful in rollovers.
Mike
t. kershner
> Alexandre Aubry wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to know if MSIE 3.x is totally compatible with
> > the JavaScript Language.
Great article re: this subject at
www.javacats.com/us/articles/Jsart.html