Netscape 6 DOM

[Scav]

Anyone know Netscape 6's DOM?

It isnt like navigator 4.7 and it isnt like IE so I'm very lost.

Thanks

[BobSkywalker]

dom?

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dont touch it if it aint broke...
no really, dont

[MK]

Death
Of
Midgets

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"A Day To Dream. A Lifetime To Act."

[Scav]

DOM = Document Object Module

It's a javascript thing. It's how a web site is disected by the browser, for example if I wanted to change the image up in the top middle of canis's page in javascript I would put

imagename.src = 'whatever.gif'

thats the same vs both browsers but they you get into fancy things like layers or div's and the dom is different for the two browsers.

If I wanted to call upon a <DIV> in Internet explorerer and make it hidden it would be:

document.all.layername.style.visibility = 'hidden'

but in netscape 4.7 at least it would be:

document.layername.visibility = 'hidden'

the problem is netscape 6 doesn't read that the same way as netscape 4.7 does so now I am asking how it does 8).

[Scav]

Moving this back up to the top cause it fell down and I still dont know the answer and rather than make a new post...

So how can I identify layers and images withen layers in netscape6.

On an interesting side note, I was browsing around with Netscape 6 and it has an option to give it the old navigator look or the new one. I keep liking it more and move but its like they tried to change too many things too fast and only got about half of what they needed done. Most web pages look horrible on netscape 6 and the css while expanded does some funky stuff. For example the trick kerash showed us on this board where you could define two styles for a link:

A:Link {blah}
A.Blue:Link {blah}
A.Red:Link {blah}

doesnt work right and it auto defaults to the A:Link even if you specified <a class="blue" href="#"> It's kinda whacky.

Well I'm still interested in expanding my horizens so if anyone knows how netscapes dom is set up or any other important infor about netscape6 leave it here 8).

Btw if I havent posted it somewhere else, Im starting to fall inlove with IE as a web user. (already fell in love with it as a web htmler) I didnt know about the links thing appearing below the location bar and how to customize it. That totaly blows netscape's bookmarks outta the water. But it looks like netscape 6 tried to incoporate a similar thing.

[Scav]

This thread is done, netscape 6 is crap, i cannot even try to make a web page for it. i thought it had good css support, well its better but its also a lot worse, it also doesnt run anything right and sux a major nut. bye bye from my machine netscape 6 you arnt worth my time.

[MK]

IE 5 isn't bad, except it crashes too often. Not that much, but even once is too often.

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[Canis Lupus]

Hehehe, Netscape is a pain. The primary reason I can't install avatars and other hacks on this board yet is because of Netscape's sloppy CSS and layer support.

You can quote me on this one:

"Netscape is a web designer's default nightmare."