> I have basic Javascript in my browser that works completely
> fine in Netscape 4.7. Now Netscape 6 comes out and it doesn't
> work, what is up with that.
I think there are a couple of different issues here.
Firstly, the main reason JS written for NN4.7 won't work in
N6 is that NN4.7 is *hideously* non-standards-compliant.
In fact IE 5.x is fairly non-compliant as well, though not
nearly as badly. Whereas N6 does actually try to implement the
W3C Document Object Model. It was always going to be the case
that when W3C DOM-compliant browsers came out - and this is the
first real attempt at that - we would all have to do a lot of
re-coding.
However, the second issue is that Netscape have completely
forked it up and this is a very poor piece of software.
I first hit this issue back in August when some bright spark
at a client of mine told his boss just as they were about to
launch the site, "Hey! Panic! The DHTML doesn't work on
Netscape 6! That consultant must have been writing non-standard
code!" Even after a bit of "re-education", my relationship with
that client is not back to what it was before, and I don't thank
Netscape for that.
Nick
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