Re: [Dynapi-Help] Mac users

[Roger J. <rog...@fr...>]

on 00-11-30 23.52, Sam Douglass at sa...@eb... wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Are there any other people out there using the DynAPI 2 and targetting
> Macintosh users? Things seem OK in the Netscape world on the Mac, but
> IE on the Mac appears to be a flaky piece of crap that functions
> differently even from it's Windows counterpart. So, I'm trying to make
> things work on the Mac side, starting with the features I need, and I
> was wondering if anyone out there has experiences with getting features
> of the DynAPI 2 to work properly on IE on the Mac. I'd love to hear
> about them. If there are enough of us, maybe we could start another
> mailing list...

DynAPI 2 seems to work very well in IE5 on the Mac for me. But then I
haven't used every feature of the API. Netscape 6 has a few problems, but
most things work. A couple of things I have noticed though:

In order for a DynLayer which is completely covered by an image to be
draggable on the Mac, it needs a child layer to catch the drag event.
Unfortunately this also blocks mouse events from reaching the image - title
attributes don't show.

For dragging to work properly in Netscape 4.x/Mac (which, in my experience,
has no problems with JavaScript as someone here stated), event bubbling
needs to be disabled: change line 41 in inc/js/lib/dynapi/api/dragevent.js
from e.setBubble(true) to e.setBubble(false). This will disable the
"click-and-hold contextual menu". Will this have any bad effects?

I did not run into these problems with the "old" Dynamic Duo DynAPI, btw.

/R
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