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

[Jack C. <jac...@ne...>]

Actually I wouldn't mind giving up support for Netscape 4 entirely, if
it means cleaner code and opens more possibilities to DynAPI.

-- 
Jack Chung <jac...@ne...>
http://www.PerceptiveCorner.com/


On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:05:23 -0700 (PDT)
Raymond Irving <xw...@ya...> wrote:

> 
> 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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