Is there any timeline for the next planned stable release? I'd like to be
able to support cross-browser (4.0-6.0+) DHTML widgets in Fortune 500 web
apps. I need a stable API in order to do this.
Thanks,
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Steinman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] dynapi ...
> First thing you should do is get the latest copy of the source using CVS.
There is instructions here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=5757
>
> The cvs software for RedHat is included on the Redhat CD, or can be
downloaded from ftp.redhat.com
>
> The 11/07 dynapi release is a bit out of date now, some significant
updates have been made since then and should release most of the problems.
I develop under Linux (in fact RH 6.2 also), and everything works very well
on Netscape now.
>
> Dan
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:15:48PM -0500, Daniel Shriver wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My system is Linux Zoot (6.2), with Netscape 4.72 running on it, I
> > have the 11/07/2000 build of the dynapi.
> > I'm working through the tutorial on the dynapi 2 and I'm finding
> > erratic behavior. For one thing I find that examples on dragging work
> > one day and not the next (giving an error in the dynapi.js of:
> >
> > JavaScript Error:
> > file:/home/DShriver/DHTML_INFO/dyn2_11_07_2000/dynapi/js/dynapi.js,
> > line 92:
> >
> > group is not defined.
> >
> > JavaScript Error:
> > file:/home/DShriver/DHTML_INFO/dyn2_11_07_2000/dynapi/js/dynapi.js,
> > line 45:
> >
> > DynDocument is not defined.
> > )
> >
> > The code looks reasonable and it looks like the variables should be
> > defined (there are statements setting them up, so I could only see them
> > being undefined if their building blocks were null) and I have not
> > touched the API.
> >
> > Also the previous day I got as far as the widget tutorial and found that
> > when I tried open the widget page in my browser
> > it killed the browser (I repeated this behavior many times, even after a
> > fresh rebooting).
> >
> > Is there some strange issue with the API not working quite right on
> > Linux or with 4.72, or both? Or did I set things up incorrectly.
> >
> > Also is there some good DHTML ref for building "widgets" out there. All
> > I want (right now) out of DHTML is scrollable
> > windows. I've done a LOT of surfing to find them and have found
> > numerous toolkits but they all seem to have one or more of the following
> > flaws:
> > -big gaps in browser cross compatability
> > -buggy (some of them just don't work right, some have
> > problems that can be fixed by me refreshing the page but
> > I view this as unacceptable to the end user,
> > ...).
> > I probably will not want anything else for quite some time and when I do
> > it will most likely be some other vanilla content navigation tool. The
> > big goal for me is solid browser cross compatablity. It would be
> > acceptable for the tools to only work with IE4 (and beyond), and NS4
> > (and beyond) on various OS's and boxes.
> >
> > Ideally I'd like to work with some toolkit that does all the "magic" for
> > me (branching around different DOM's and browser flaws) leaving me to
> > deal with only logic and presentation issues.
> >
> >
> >
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