Re: [Dynapi-Help] DynAPI 3 - Netscape 4.03 port

[Raymond I. <xw...@ya...>]

Do we really have to support the buggy NN4.03? 

Should we really be adding "return null;" to all our
functions?

I think we should support the ns4 that's less buggy
such as 4.7 (at least)

PS. We just can't win them all :(

--
Raymond Irving

--- C Kissinger <cki...@ne...> wrote:
> I think this API is great, and I got v3, but even
> though the
> 
> docs say it's supported for NN4+, (yes I know it's a
> beta)
> 
> it seems it has been tested on NN 4.73: the most
> "stable" NN4.
> 
>  
> 
> I have found that 4.03 is even flakier, which is why
> I use it.
> 
> Every example had a bucketful of errors, most of
> them
> 
> stemming from a "function does not always return a
> value" error.
> 
>  
> 
> There are a lot of empty "return;" statements in the
> code, so
> 
> I made a quick hack by replacing them with "return
> null;". That
> 
> took care of many of the errors, not all. The rest
> (still stemming
> 
> from the "function does not always return a value"
> errors) were
> 
> from conditional return statements in a function,
> without a final
> 
> "default" return statement if none of the conditions
> are met. So
> 
> I added "return null;" to these functions as well.
> 
>  
> 
> I don't know if I broke anything by doing this, but
> going one by
> 
> one through the examples and adding "return null;"
> statements
> 
> as I found errors, I got up to the "MotionX" example
> and
> 
> everything that far works fine now on NN 4.03, NS
> 7.02, IE 6,
> 
> and Mozilla 1.4 in WinXP.
> 
>  
> 
> I intend to test on Linux later.
> 
> 


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