kie said:
thanks, i'm looking through your web site now. especially the page
"Dynamic Table Formatting"
(
http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorunclear/HTMLJavascriptCSS/DynamicTableFormatting.html),
is this the one you meant me to read to help me clean up the problems
in my code?
No, not at all. This page has very little to do with the difficulties I
see in your code. In fact, that table formatting page is not well done
.... I refer to the visual display and its interactivity which requires a
high scr. res.
its a great bookmark to have, i'd like to eventually learn all the
techniques you've documented.
i firstly set out to make the page work in ie6, then start worrying
about cross browser compatibility, your web site is primarily
concerned with this.
Well, I already disagree with such policy. For starters, MSIE 6 for
windows is much more W3C web standards compliant (DOM 2 attributes and
methods) than many people think.
I personally code entirely according to W3C web standards and then, once
the code is working well with W3C web standards compliant browsers like
Opera 7 and Mozilla 1.5, I make relevant adjustements, if needed and
justified, for MSIE 6.
My policy is that a page must be both W3C web standards compliant (valid
markup code and CSS code) and work as best it can in MSIE 6, Mozilla 1.x
and Opera 7.x (in that order). So far, I have always achieved that goal
100% of the time.
is my code still problematic and badly formatted
Yes, I think so.
even though it functions up to an extent?
You have to understand that you still need your code to be optimized, to
use the most efficient manners to achieve your goals and resort to the
best coding techniques.
E.g. 2 aspects:
- any code which is repetitive is a sign that a parametrized loop (for
or while) could execute better, more efficiently your goals. Your opt1
var is a good example of this. There are others.
- too many variables, too many functions, scripts, dynamic creation,
removal, etc... too much cpu-RAM-demanding page usually lead modest user
system to crash
harsh critisism will not be take offense, i'm still learning how to do
this.
thanks again, kie
Thank you for saying so. Sometimes people might misinterpret my choice
of words, the care/importance/emphasis I might give to this or that issue.
DU
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Javascript and Browser bugs:
http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorunclear/
- Resources, help and tips for Netscape 7.x users and Composer
- Interactive demos on Popup windows, music (audio/midi) in Netscape 7.x
http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorunclear/Netscape7/Netscape7Section.html