Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-06 Thread David Suna
This may be somewhat off topic to Linux but since we are on the topic of browser incompatibilities I thought I would share a recent Firefox / IE javascript incompatibility that wasn't caught by any of the standards checkers that I use. The specific instance was a href=somelink id=myID div

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-06 Thread Peter
Did you try the javascript in FF after waiting for the page to load and display or was it run at startup ? Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-06 Thread David Suna
The actual case was somewhat more complicated. The code was part of a javascript scroller that I had modified to generate the contents of the scroller dynamically. So first there was javascript code that generated the a hrefdiv code and later a timer handler checked the height of the

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-06 Thread Peter
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, David Suna wrote: The actual case was somewhat more complicated. The code was part of a javascript scroller that I had modified to generate the contents of the scroller dynamically. So first there was javascript code that generated the a hrefdiv code and later a

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote about FireFox - not compatible with IE: 1. Music - When you enter some of my pages, such as http://www.speedy.co.il/composer/ , with IE, you hear music automatically. When you enter with FireFox you don't (at least not on my computer, or maybe you

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:18:17AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: I don't know why this happened, but I'm glad it does. There's hardly anything more annoying on the web than Web-pages that insist to talk or play music when you enter them. I hardly ever use the Internet when I'm completely alone.

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-04 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Thanks for all your comments and suggestions. I will take them into account. Nadav Har'El wrote: I don't know why this happened, but I'm glad it does. There's hardly anything more annoying on the web than Web-pages that insist to talk or play music when you enter them. I hardly ever use the

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:17:09PM +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Thanks for all your comments and suggestions. I will take them into account. Nadav Har'El wrote: I don't know why this happened, but I'm glad it does. There's hardly anything more annoying on the web than Web-pages that

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-04 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday, 4 בOctober 2005 23:17, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I completely agree. But how do I know what is standard and what is not? Can you recommend any website where I can learn the standard? I mostly learn software online and not from books. I don't even have a JavaScript book. The standard

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Uri Even-Chen, from the post of Tue, 04 Oct: The lesson is - if you also want your Javascript code to work on many browsers, try to adhere to the Javascript standard. Though it is possible I completely agree. But how do I know what is standard and what is not? Can you recommend

FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-03 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Hi people, As a webmaster, I have a problem with FireFox not being compatible with IE. A few years ago I stopped checking my website with any browser other than IE - for economical reasons: most users use IE. Now I do check my website occasionally with FireFox, but some things are just not

Re: FireFox - not compatible with IE

2005-10-03 Thread Peter
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi people, As a webmaster, I have a problem with FireFox not being compatible with IE. A few years ago I stopped checking my website with any browser other than IE - for economical reasons: most users use IE. Now I do check my website occasionally