Thanks, Tim, that's helpful.
mayscript fails to validate in xhtml transitional, yes. it still
works, though, so when you say not allowed, I'm a bit confused.
Not as confused as I am (obviously).
...
> validation has nothing whatsoever to do with functionality of your code
> in a browser. in a perfect world, all browsers would run only code
> that validates against the designated specs (determined by the
> doctype). this is not at all the case, though. :-(
Ah, that's a distinction I'm trying to learn about. validate vs. allowed vs.
works. Sounds familiar. I think I was hoping for more.
If my code doesn't validate -- as will result from "mayscript" -- then I just
cross my fingers that browsers will still accept it -- that it won't knock out
IE and that Netscape will be happy. Or that Miguel can get Jmol.js to deliver an
applet only when absolutely necessary. Is that the idea? Should I not care? I'm
not sure what the point of moving toward valid XHTML code is if the applet code
itself won't always validate.
I have this Mac/Safari LiveConnect failure in the back of my mind, of course.
I'll be running some tests tonight with the <object> code Miguel has in Jmol.js.
The documentation pop-up examples should be delivering object code now. (You can
tell if it is if the pop-up reads "object applet" just under the applet frank.)
Maybe it's too much to ask that switching to <object> will fix that. But the
fact that Nick reported this in the NEWEST Mac OS suggests MAYBE? the problem is
with the <applet> code itself. I'm crossing my fingers that Miguel's object fix
will fix the Mac LiveConnect bug.... Hey, I'm an optimist! :)
Bob
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