I think the following is a bit of html code embedded in, for instance,
<http://www.alpha1.org.au/12.html>, which causes an animated cursor.
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<!--Goodie//--><!--AnimatedCursor//--><script language=javascript>
var _cursorType='2';
var _cursorText='AAA';
var _cursorPath='';
var _textColor='#006600';
</script><SCRIPT
src='goodies/AniCursor/js/elasticText.js'></SCRIPT><!--AnimatedCusor//--><!-
-/Goodie//--></FONT><BR><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"
href="http://thewebdesigner.netregistry.net/swiz/editor/css/default.css";><!-
-f3><f3--></font><!--f4><f4--></FONT></TD>
<TD valign=top>
<IMG src="img/hp/base/ba19.jpg" width=35 height=254></TD>
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Can anyone hazard a guess as to why the animated cursor works with, for
instance, Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, but doesn't seem to work
when using Safari or Firefox with MacOS X ?
The important code is in goodies/AniCursor/js/elasticText.js. It is
Javascript full of constructs of the general form:
"if (internet explorer) do something otherwise [if netscape]
do something else"
In other words it is almost certainly using non-standard Javascript -
but I have not tried to figure out exactly how it does work. The code
has no reference to "safari" or "firefox" or "mozilla" and so does
not have special code which would make it work in those browsers
(which in fact may be impossible - I am not sure that standard
Javacript can modify the appearance of the cursor, if that is what
this code does).
This is yet another example of varying web page behaviour where it is
not the fault of the browser - Safari (and most other browsers) and
especially Firefox generally handle standard HTML/Javascript very
well - as usual the fault lies with the creator of the web page.
Geoff
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Kaye Stott and Geoff Prince
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: http://www.kgweb.org.au
