Re: [Dynapi-Dev] strings and functions

2001-10-18 Thread Bart Bizon
When is eval not an option due to memory leaks and bugs..? And in what browsers? True, eval is powerful, and the slowest function in JS, but I've only been able to find one bug with it, a major one, and that was in Netscape 4. (I'd explain it, because it's sooo freaky, and it has to do with protot

Re[2]: [Dynapi-Dev] strings and functions

2001-10-18 Thread Stephan Tolksdorf
Hi Bart, > When is eval not an option due to memory leaks and bugs..? And in what > browsers? We aren't talking about small functions which are executed by eval, but about large amounts of code. I can't give you specific references other than the suggestion to search for eval in groups.google.co

Re: [Dynapi-Dev] dynimage

2001-10-18 Thread Dan Steinman
An Image widget does make sense, but there are some problems with DynImage. There are some bugs with it, and some the preloading code isn't really needed (keeping a list of image src's etc). DynImage is a better option that writing the string in a DynLayer because you have extra Image specif

[Dynapi-Dev] DOMLIb, DynAPI Ultra Edition, DynAPI3 anyone?

2001-10-18 Thread Stephen Carroll
Quite a few of you have written me and informed me that on slower machines DynAPI Ultra edition is rather slow to decompress. I've also just taken a look at DOMapi and am quite impressed. Its not as broad as DynAPI in terms of compatibility with 4+ browsers but it is smaller. However, domAPI lacks