Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/10/06 21:11

Freebie wrote:
> <mike@youell.net> wrote in message
> news:1144684602.600511.108570@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can't see any butterflies near my mouse pointer. Have you taken them
>> off now, or are my two browsers not displaying them (Macintosh - Safari
>> and Firefox)?
>>
>> You could try running your code through a html validator, see:
>> http://validator.w3.org/
>>
>> As validators often do help, although running them the first time can
>> be daunting, don't be put off fixing all the "little" bugs. As some of
>> those "little" bugs may be "big" bugs (from experience), afterall it's
>> easy to miss something.
>>
>> Another thing I would suggest is to ask the users who found the problem
>> which platform and web browser (including version) they were using, as
>> this may help you track it down to one or two specific browser or
>> platforms. You could then look into idiosyncrasies with these
>> browsers... etc.
>>
>
> The butterflies are still there, so I guess javascript maybe doesn't show up
> in Firefox? Or does Firefox have a setting to turn it off (by default?).
> God, I must be behind the times..."Safari"? I'd never even heard of that one
> until today. Thanks for letting me know about it. I'll have a look at that
> validator site, but I don't expect to sort it out that way as I am a total
> novice to html and have used only the most basic tags in my html.

No, ancient script!

<script>
B=document.all; <-- MSIE proprietary
C=document.layers; <-- Old Netscape 4.x proprietary


The DOM function is document.getElementById for modern browsers the
script is 10 years old, an eon with respect to computers...



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Take care,

Jonathan
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