[Dynapi-Widgetdev] Re: Richard Bennett & all others

[Cheston U. <Che...@rl...>]

Thanks for the reply.

To address your first question, No, I won't be making concerted efforts to support Netscape.  The reason is simple.  Our Network Administrator won't allow Netscape of any kind to be installed on any computer owned by the school division.  This makes developing and testing pages on NS virtually imopossible, so I can't really do anything about it. ( I would support it, if i could.) 

As for your solution to the problem...
    I allready tried the getWidth() and getHeight() method.....and it didnt work. For some reason, the code just doesnt seem to update the height/width, when the user resizes the browser.  I am thinking of having a new window opened with resizing disabled, and automatically maximized to the user's screen resolution.  So far, it seems the only viable solution.

However, your suggestion for a History module is rather intriguing.

If you, or anyone else have any ideas how to go about making a History module, perhapse we could all get together and start developing one.  It cirtainly would solve the resize/page-reload problem, and make everything more compatable.

 I'm not real familiar with the guts of OOP, but I catch on to methods of programming fast.  If you want a copy of what I currently have developed, send me and e-mail at:
Che...@rl... 
and I'll respond with the page I've been developing so far.  It isnt a Widget yet, just a script that I would like to someday make *into* a Widget. 
Until then, I want to work on getting the entire concept to work correctly...bridging the gap between webpage and webapp.
The basic premise is to have frames that can be manipulated in ways that are currently not possible with conventional frames. Try clicking on a conventional frame, and have it change size, move around, dissappear, re-appear, etc......you cant do it.  Nest an IFRAME within a Dynlayer...and boom....you have all the flexibility of a Dynlayer, with the external page browsing and external script handling of a completely separate frame.  In my opinion, Netscape is somewhat foolish for not supporting IFRAMEs as IE has done.

But I guess we'll have to see what happens in the future.  Until then....Whoever has useful ideas on how to help me out, will get commendation on my site, and a link to your own (assuming it's appropriate for schoolkids to see it  ;-D  ...the joys of volunteering for a school-=grins=-.).
  
Ciao
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 - Cheston U.
     (Rainbow Lake School Webmaster)

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