| Browser Compatability Issues (Netscape 7 vs Mozilla vs IE 6) |
| Event Model |
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Netscape has a different mechanism for catching events on the document level.
Instead of using IE's document.attachEvent(event,method)
Netscape uses document.addEventListener(event,method,Boolean).
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| Capturing Event Element |
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When interrogating the event element there are some differences between the DOM.
Instead if being event.srcElement, netscape uses e.target.
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| InnerText |
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InnerText is NOT supported by Netscape. For netscape use the following code...
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var str = ""
for (var i=0; i<el.childNodes.length; i++) {
switch (el.childNodes.item(i).nodeType) {
case 1: //ELEMENT_NODE
str += getInnerText(el.childNodes.item(i));
break;
case 3: //TEXT_NODE
str += el.childNodes.item(i).nodeValue;
break;
}
}
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| DOM manipulation |
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IE and Mozilla share a similar DOM structure,
but Netscape differs in relation to how it interprates it's child
nodes. For example look at the following code.
IE interoperates the following code theadrow = e.srcElement.parentElement;
whereas Netscape and Mozilla use the following code theadrow = e.target.parentNode;
Although Netscape supports document.getElementById('id') ..
it does NOT support any of the other element code. You must use node manipulation
instead
For example colCount = theadrow.children.length; brings back
the length of an array of all the children in IE but you would have to
use the following code in Netscape and Mozilla is colCount = theadrow.cells.length;.
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| Browser Detection Javascript |
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The JAFFA framework was written to support the following browsers , IE 5.5 and up , Mozilla 1.3 , and Netscape 6 and up. When building an application you may want to drop this script into your page to detect browser version. We suggest that you may want to steer them then to an applicable download page.
<Script Language="JavaScript">
var is_major = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
var is_minor = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
// Note: Opera and WebTV spoof Navigator. We do strict client detection.
// If you want to allow spoofing, take out the tests for opera and webtv.
var is_nav = ((agt.indexOf('mozilla')!=-1) && (agt.indexOf('spoofer')==-1)
&& (agt.indexOf('compatible') == -1) && (agt.indexOf('opera')==-1)
&& (agt.indexOf('webtv')==-1) && (agt.indexOf('hotjava')==-1));
var is_nav6 = (is_nav && (is_major == 5));
var is_nav6up = (is_nav && (is_major >= 5));
var is_gecko = (agt.indexOf('gecko') != -1);
var is_ie5_5up =(is_ie && !is_ie3 && !is_ie4 && !is_ie5);
var is_ie6 = (is_ie && (is_major == 4) && (agt.indexOf("msie 6.")!=-1) );
var is_ie6up = (is_ie && !is_ie3 && !is_ie4 && !is_ie5 && !is_ie5_5);
if (is_nav6up || is_gecko || isie5_5up) {
} else {
window.location="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/";
}
</script>
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