From: "Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2005 August 15 Monday 13:57
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As you may or may not be aware, older versions of DynAPI do not run well in Opera because they detect Opera as "Opera" and important parts of the script branches for NN and IE only. This means important objects and variables have not been defined and the script fails to run correctly. As a fix for this, I've written a script which will detect when a page is about to use an external script with an address ending in "dynapi/api/browser.js". If this is the case, Opera will set its "navigator.appName" property to "Microsoft Internet Explorer" while executing that script. This obviously has implications for any version of DynAPI that uses the same file name/directory structure. You may not be able to detect Opera reliably. If you believe this will cause problems for current or future versions please voice your concerns..
I believe that is the DynAPI 2 or older way. Currently we're not doing anything with DynAPI 2. Ideally I'd like to update the older APIs, but right now I'm spending my time trying to fix bugs for a DynAPI 3 release. I'm not opposed to updating DynAPI 1 or 2, if someone came forward with something and said, "Here, I did it, I tested it, here's a bunch of test cases for previous and updated version, try it yourself." Then I'd have little extra to do but test, merge and commit. Until then, I guess I can't be opposed to hacks that may work-around any broken problems. But, it'd be nice if the user can turn the feature on or off globally, as well as per-site, incase we do get something fixed up. But that's a long ways off, if ever. Currently DynAPI 3 has moved the browser detect stuff into "dynapi/src/dynapi.js", though some may choose to install just /src/ on the site under a different dirname like /scripts/dynapi/dynapi.js or something. So I don't think it would affect current or future versions. But well, if anyone else sees a problem, be sure to speak up!
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