[Dynapi-Help] Updated Matrix

[Matthew Shirey]

Hey all,   I updated the Matrix yesterday but neglected to email the list.   http://mocha.ctlt.wsu.edu/DynAPIMatrix/     Some notes about my tests with the current version:   Windows Netscape 4.04 seems to have taken a bad swing for the worse.  Looks like some functions in the event objects don’t return values.  This causes JS errors in a majority of the examples for NS 4.04 that would work fine otherwise.   Netscape 4.75 on Linux also seems to have a new problem.  Keeps telling me there is an error in line 128 of mouse.js.  This is what caused about half of the examples to fail on this browser/os combination.   I added Mac IE 5.1 from the new Mac OS X.  It seems to have a bad crashing problem.  Nearly all of the examples worked fine to start with but when you attempt to leave the page the browser crashes.  I was very thorough with testing this browser.  The results were perfectly consistent across multiple refreshes and reboots.  Anything that is marked as “Crashed Browser!” for this browser, crashed as the page was exited.   I read on the list that this was the most compatible version of DynAPI on the Mac.  This is simply not true.  With the complete removal of support for IE 4.5, and the many new/changing problems with NS 4.76 this is a bit of a step backward.  There have been a couple very minor improvements on IE 5.0 for the Mac but everything else got worse.  I don’t mean this as an attack on the programmers of the API.  I know that DHTML on the Mac is a bloody nightmare.   A question or two now…   Has support for IE 4.5 on the Mac been intentionally removed? Are there any attempts being made to support Opera?  Again, I understand this is a problem with the browser, not the programmers.   Should these browsers be removed from the matrix, or left to show their incompatibility?   Again, I hope someone is getting something useful out of this information.   -- Matthew