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Re: quanta & previewing
by Julien Olivier on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @05:33

Hi

I'm a web developer and I NEVER had any problem with compatibility. In fact, I always design my websites using the HTML norm, verifying them on konqueror and, when I've finished, I test them on Mozilla and IE. Believe me or not, I have never had to change anything in my HTML code for it to work on the three navigators. I really believe that it's not that hard to make a perfect website without taking care of which navigator will be used to watch it.

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Re: quanta & previewing
by me on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @12:03

you don't use javascript & dhtml, do you?!

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Re: quanta & previewing
by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @14:43

> you don't use javascript & dhtml, do you?!

One can certainly hope, at least that it is not as overly complex as some.

I have used a number of scripts that enable consistent behavior. You test for browser type and adjust accordingly. However rather than use old techniques I usually just use DOM which Konqi uses nicely. Danny Goodman's Javascipt Bible is also handy her to identify what you want to use and abstract your browser operatons to standardized commands. I have used Javascript and DHTML and done just fine knowing what I was using would work for IE because I read books that specified what each browser would or would not do. Like I said it's gotten better with DOM. Anyway I always just called a windows bound friend when it was done to make sure the small bit of code that handles IE specific stuff wasn't broken and I got no bug reports. It's not really that big of a deal unless you are trying to do with Javascript what, in my opinion, would be probably better done with PHP.

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Re: quanta & previewing
by Julien Olivier on Friday 13/Sep/2002, @00:22

Yes I do. But I admit that I use few JS and DHTML. And, if that's your point, I also admit that I had some (little) problems with JS and DHTML. Sometimes JS/DHTML code doesn't work on Mozilla whereas it works fine on IE and Konqueror. Compatibility between Konqueror (3.0.x) and IE are really rare for me. That's why I think that testing only konqueror is enough for HTML but testing Mozilla too should be enough for JS and DHTML. Of course it depends on how complex your JS/DHTML code is. Some times you just won't be able to make fully compatible code at all :(

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