[Dynapi-Dev] Core DynAPI2 - Loading html files into DynLayer's

[Liam C. <met...@ma...>]

First a big 'thankyou' to everyone who has contributed to this excellent
tool.

I am a UK based Mac OS9 and X based professional web-developer, and if I can
be of any help in QAing code for this platform please feel free to ask.

I'm currently porting a site using a heavily customised (messy) DynAPI1, to
DynAPI2, but having not built the original have some questions I cant seem
to answer:

1) Possibly a newbie (to version 2) question, but I have consulted the docs,
archives and examples to find a step-by-step answer:

I'd like to maintain this site with separate html files that are loaded into
DynLayers when I create them, how do I achieve this? Does the DynAPI2 get
around using an IFRAME buffer in IE?

2) Similarly my experience has led me to rely on external css for the
configuration of layers. Is there any way to apply specified 'class' tags to
DynLayers at creation time? Or should I convert this to use an external JS
based config file with variables?

3) Ambitiously I would like to place Flash movies (and other Plugin media)
on DynLayers and have them dragable. This is currently working with DynAPI1,
and  works fine in Netscape with the Core distribution, but IE 5 Mac leaves
the plugin area behind (havnet tried IE 4+ PC yet). Has anyone any
experience ideas about this problem?
(I am wisely ignoring IE 4.5 Mac)

Finally I have some feedback on the Dynacore DynAPI2 distribution
(unofficial one):

1) The benchmarks work without a hitch in Netscape 4.74 and 4.76 (all Mac)
2) In Netscape 4.08 Mac the benchmarks run without errors until B4 but no
layers are ever shown (weird), all alerts etc report back faithfully.
3) In IE 5 Mac anything involving hiding or deleting a Dynlayer results in a
'permission denied' alert (B2 line232, B3 line 308), and the eventlistener
(B4) works but can be erratic.

Happy to give further details if these haven't been noted before.

TIA

Liam Clancy

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