[Dynapi-Help] Hiyas! and IE 4.5 Macintosh

[Matthew S. <PK...@Tu...>]

We just started using DynAPI lastweek and it is a great library.  We have
not had this level of DHTML compatability between browsers ever before and
it is quite refreshing.  We have been targeting the following browsers
without too many problems:

PC: IE4.0+, NS 4.5+
Mac: IE 4.5, IE 5

We have to avoid some things to make the Mac versions of the browsers but
overall most things work well.  I have two things I want to mention.  One if
I try to instatiate a DynLayer without size parameters IE4.5 on the Mac
throws a JS error when the document.addChild method is called.  If I specify
the size parameters this does not happen.  Unfortunately I really need to
NOT specify the parameters for the current situation.  Since this is just a
simple JS error, looks like when the clipping area is attempted to be set,
it should be easy to fix.

My second problem has to do with what appears to be a rendering problem on
IE 4.5 on the Mac.  This one I am not sure anything can be done about.
Basically it comes down to nesting layers.  As soon as I place a DynLayer
inside another DynLayer I get rendering errors.  Things like duplicate text.
The test will be where it is supposed to be inside the layer, then it will
be duplicated at the same relitive position in the parent layer, then it is
duplicated at the same relative position in the parent document... etc.  If
I stay away from nested layers everything works fine in IE 4.5, but this is
a little limiting... is there anything that can be done on the dev end?

Thanks!



Matthew Shirey

Software Engineer
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Washington State University
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