Re: [Dynapi-Dev] [ dynapi-Bugs-226673 ] IE 4 & 5 Macintosh

[Raymond S. <dst...@or...>]

God praise, a Macintosh debugger.

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From: "nobody" <no...@us...>
To: <no...@so...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] [ dynapi-Bugs-226673 ] IE 4 & 5 Macintosh


> Bugs #226673, was updated on 2000-12-22 03:23
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> Category: Browser-Specific Issue
> Group: None
> Status: Open
> Priority: 5
> Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous
> Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous
> Summary: IE 4 & 5 Macintosh
>
> Initial Comment:
> DynLayer doesn't work properly
>
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> Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous
> Date: 2001-03-06 18:03
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> Message:
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> I have gone one step further and put the test in
> browser.js.  At the end I add the check
>
> if (this.platform == "mac" && this.ie5) {this.ie4 = true;
> this.ie5 = false;}
>
> This seems to fix up many problem, not just layer creation.
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> Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous
> Date: 2001-03-06 15:02
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> I have found that I have fixed a few of the issues on the
> Mac for IE4 & 5.  Part of the problem is that IE5 on the
> Mac doesn't have the same capabilities as IE5 for win32.
> However, it is close to IE4 on win32.  For example....
>
> DynLayer.createElement=function(dlyr).....
>
> if (is.ie4) {
> ....
> } else if (is.ie5 || is.ns5) {
> ...
> }
>
> because it is trying to use ie5 stuff, moving a child
> actually ends up moving the parent!  I create a temporary
> fix by doing the following.  Doing this, I can now get the
> scrollbar to work!
>
> if (is.ie4 || (is.ie5 && is.platform == "mac") {
> ....
> } else if (is.ie5 || is.ns5) {
> ...
> }
>
> I am thinking that any place where you check for is.ie5,
> you need to add the "mac" ie5 case to the is.ie4 case.
>
>
>
>
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> Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous
> Date: 2001-01-18 05:20
>
> Message:
> There are quite a few problems with DHTML related to the Macintosh:
>
> IE4.5 is a nightmare, especially when coming to z-indexes and weird
transparent overlays preventing events from occuring on the page)
>
> It also seems like any clipping manipulation is disallowed (the
elm.style.clip does not seem to be able to be manipulated)
>
> This seems to also carry on over to IE5 on the mac too
>
> Many of the most advanced features (luckily most not used by the DynAPI)
are not supported at all in 4.5 and quite a few are incompletely supported
by 5.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a mac myself at present so i cannot give
further information, however it is worth noting that IE5.5 PC and IE5 mac
are very similar (bugs like transparent layers not capturing events etc are
held in common)
>
> As I am no longer familiar with the DynAPI I'm afraid that this is all I
can offer at present, I may try to list all problems I encounter as I am
currently developing a very complex DHTML API of my own for a project I am
on which requires support for:
>
> NS 4.08 upto NS6 PC and Mac
> IE 4-5.5 PC and Mac
>
> Which means I spend most of my time cursing macintoshes!
>
> Chris Bodar(t)
>
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> Comment By: Pascal Bestebroer
> Date: 2001-01-15 09:44
>
> Message:
> Someone with Mac IE access that can fix this?
> or:
> Any other Mac IE users who have the same problems (or no problems at all)
>
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> Comment By: Christoph Kepper
> Date: 2001-01-15 09:12
>
> Message:
> As far as I can see there must be something wrong with the initialization
> routine of the Dynlayer. I don't get any Javascript Error Messages and the
> Dynlayers don't show up anywhere. However, everything worked fine in all
> other browsers.
>
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> Comment By: Pascal Bestebroer
> Date: 2001-01-12 11:18
>
> Message:
> Give more info, cause this is not helpfull.
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