Re: [Dynapi-Dev] About the addHTML() function

[Dan W. <da...@wi...>]

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 14:57, Raymond Irving wrote:
> As for the addHTML() function ....
> 
> // Before the page loads you can use addHTML to add
> regular html text to the document.
> // this will behave similar to the document.write()
> function in both ns4 and other browsers
> dynapi.document.addHTML('Some Text <b>here Some
> Text</b> here Some Text here Some Text here Some Text
> here Some Text here');
> 
> dynapi.onLoad(function(){
> 
> 	// After the page has been loaded the addHTML()
> function will behave differently in ns4 than in other
> browsers.
> 	// All HTML content added after the page has been
> loaded in ns4 will appear at location 0,0
> 	// while in other browsers it will be appended to the
> end of the document.
> 	// It's best to use the addHTML() to add inline
> layers to the document after a page load.
> 
> 	var html='<table border="1" width="100%"><tr><td>This
> is an inline layer that was created after page
> load</td></tr></table>';
> 
> 	if(dynapi.ua.ns4) dynapi.document.addHTML('<layer
> id="myid2" width="100" height="100"
> bgcolor="yellow">'+html+'</layer>');
> 	else dynapi.document.addHTML('<div id="myid2"
> style="position:absolute;width:100px;height:100px;background-color:yellow;">'+html+'</div>');
> 
> 	var lyr = new DynLayer();
> 	lyr.setID('myid2',true);
> 	dynapi.document.addChild(lyr);
> 	lyr.setLocation(100,100);
> 	lyr.setSize(150,100);
> 	lyr.setHTML(html);
> });
> 
> 
> Should we keep the addHTML() function or remove it and
> have the users implement their own functions?
I vote that we keep it, face it, eventually netscape 4 will be gone, and
then there won't be a problem anymore.  I won't support scraping a
'newer' feature just because it doesn't work right in a 5+ year
browser.  We could recommend not to use it if you want your webpage to
work entirely correctly in nn4.
> 
> 
> --
> Raymond Irving
> 
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