God praise, a Macintosh debugger. ----- Original Message ----- From: "nobody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:03 PM Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] [ dynapi-Bugs-226673 ] IE 4 & 5 Macintosh > Bugs #226673, was updated on 2000-12-22 03:23 > You can respond by visiting: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105757&aid=226673&group_id= 5757 > > Category: Browser-Specific Issue > Group: None > Status: Open > Priority: 5 > Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous > Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous > Summary: IE 4 & 5 Macintosh > > Initial Comment: > DynLayer doesn't work properly > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous > Date: 2001-03-06 18:03 > > Message: > Logged In: NO > > I have gone one step further and put the test in > browser.js. At the end I add the check > > if (this.platform == "mac" && this.ie5) {this.ie4 = true; > this.ie5 = false;} > > This seems to fix up many problem, not just layer creation. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous > Date: 2001-03-06 15:02 > > Message: > Logged In: NO > > I have found that I have fixed a few of the issues on the > Mac for IE4 & 5. Part of the problem is that IE5 on the > Mac doesn't have the same capabilities as IE5 for win32. > However, it is close to IE4 on win32. For example.... > > DynLayer.createElement=function(dlyr)..... > > if (is.ie4) { > .... > } else if (is.ie5 || is.ns5) { > ... > } > > because it is trying to use ie5 stuff, moving a child > actually ends up moving the parent! I create a temporary > fix by doing the following. Doing this, I can now get the > scrollbar to work! > > if (is.ie4 || (is.ie5 && is.platform == "mac") { > .... > } else if (is.ie5 || is.ns5) { > ... > } > > I am thinking that any place where you check for is.ie5, > you need to add the "mac" ie5 case to the is.ie4 case. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous > Date: 2001-01-18 05:20 > > Message: > There are quite a few problems with DHTML related to the Macintosh: > > IE4.5 is a nightmare, especially when coming to z-indexes and weird transparent overlays preventing events from occuring on the page) > > It also seems like any clipping manipulation is disallowed (the elm.style.clip does not seem to be able to be manipulated) > > This seems to also carry on over to IE5 on the mac too > > Many of the most advanced features (luckily most not used by the DynAPI) are not supported at all in 4.5 and quite a few are incompletely supported by 5. > > Unfortunately I don't have a mac myself at present so i cannot give further information, however it is worth noting that IE5.5 PC and IE5 mac are very similar (bugs like transparent layers not capturing events etc are held in common) > > As I am no longer familiar with the DynAPI I'm afraid that this is all I can offer at present, I may try to list all problems I encounter as I am currently developing a very complex DHTML API of my own for a project I am on which requires support for: > > NS 4.08 upto NS6 PC and Mac > IE 4-5.5 PC and Mac > > Which means I spend most of my time cursing macintoshes! > > Chris Bodar(t) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Pascal Bestebroer > Date: 2001-01-15 09:44 > > Message: > Someone with Mac IE access that can fix this? > or: > Any other Mac IE users who have the same problems (or no problems at all) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Christoph Kepper > Date: 2001-01-15 09:12 > > Message: > As far as I can see there must be something wrong with the initialization > routine of the Dynlayer. I don't get any Javascript Error Messages and the > Dynlayers don't show up anywhere. However, everything worked fine in all > other browsers. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Pascal Bestebroer > Date: 2001-01-12 11:18 > > Message: > Give more info, cause this is not helpfull. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can respond by visiting: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105757&aid=226673&group_id= 5757 > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev > _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev
