Stephan Tolksdorf writes: > Combining multiple <script>-tags is not only not possible in our case, > it is also pretty dangerous because Netscape 4's behaviour would be > unpredictable.
Ah ha. Guess I missed some context. I was going to go back and read the archive of this discussion to figure out what I missed, but it seems the archive stops at 2000-12. I've wrestled enough with netscape 4.* to know that it is just no fun figuring out what weirdness it is up to. E.g. part of an included .js file unpredictably showing up as plain text at the top of the HTML page. (Reload a couple more times and it may work again. Load order problem.) > And there are other document.write bugs, especially in Ns4. Just > search on groups.google.com and you'll find an endless list of error > reports. Just one example: > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=de&selm=3B46E03D.1060503%40bioshop.de Looks like an excellent newsgroup, but is there a public definitive list of such bugs? A nice random sample is at: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=de&group=alt.netscape.buggy-products One of the things I hate doing is figuring out bugs that have already been figured out dozens of times before. Mozilla uses bugzilla, but is there something we can read for the earlier netscape browsers? And does anyone at Netscape understand the bugs well enough to provide safe workarounds? > Anyway, due to memory leaks and some other bugs in different browsers > eval is not an alternative. Hmm. But even if eval worked reliably, it should be avoided as bad design. But like goto, it is sometimes the best tool. -- Daniel LaLiberte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.HoloNexus.org/~liberte/ http://www.HyperNews.org/~liberte/ _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/dynapi-dev@lists.sourceforge.net/
