Re: [OFF] running out of steam...run out and scream!
Re: [OFF] running out of steam...run out and scream!
- Subject: Re: [OFF] running out of steam...run out and scream!
- From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:31:50 -0800
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To be fair, I used IE3-Mac "back in the day" when it was the best browser
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out there, but it didn't crash my mac the way every M$ thing since does...
I've been working on an updated version of my oddball AppleScript site
which does a fair amount of complex JavaScript stuff. Of course once I
got it working about the way I wanted it to, getting it to work in IE
was the next step. The extent to which one can manipulate a document
dynamically using IE's dom is pretty impressive and appears to have a
lot of potential but of course...
* javascript error messages report the wrong line number and the wrong
document (when using external js files), making them much less useful.
* I get a 'Permission Denied' error when attempting to move from one
page to another, an error message I can find no documentation for.
* offline documentation is available as a windows executable. Thanks
but viewing the docs in virtual pc isn't really that convenient.
I ended up using Interarchy and webdevil to download the online docs
and wrote a script to readjust the links for offline use and to disable
some script junk left over from asp processing and to convince hundreds
of pages that it wasn't necessary for them to be contained in a stupid
frameset which was akin to reading documentation through a peephole.
I had to move fast just to get the initial link...opening the frame in
a new window activated the framset script.
Cool, I thought as I clicked on the link to a JSCRIPT debugger tool
which what a surprise, is windows only.
Fortunately I did get my homebrew debugging tools (for recursively
listing and manipulating JS and window objects and executing functions
etc in a shell-like enviroment encapsulated in an html form).
It runs in the browser and is platform and browser non-specific.
Great, I thought when I clicked on a link of runtime and compilation
errors which turned out to be a table of error messages with no links
and no descriptions.
Finally finding errors documented in an online reference I was not
shocked to discover the one plaguing me wasn't listed.
What a nice feature I cheered when I found that a popup list with a
single item starts the index count at 1 while the same with more
than one starts the count at 0.
I just love how standards and specs clearly stated and available to
everyone even partially funded by the big two are ignored in favor
of proprietary tags and frivelous sometimes even platform dependent
extensions are added.
Who needs platform and application independency!
Internet Explorer 5.0 - "The Best Browser"
Reviewer Tom Negrino calls Internet Explorer 5 "not
only the best Web browser ever released for the
Macintosh, but also arguably the best Web browser
ever released for any computing platform." Read
the review to find out why the browser got such
rave reviews.
"The bags of money they gave me had no influence
on my opinion whatsoever. What's a browser?"
Oops. Did I say rant mode off? I meant 'plant'. 8)
R23