RE: The future of RPG (was DIM question).

Oh no! I was wondering how long it would take before this thread turned
into a "Joe's product saves the world" monologue.

:)


Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:33 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: The future of RPG (was DIM question).
>
> > From: Nicolay, Paul
> >
> > If done correctly... you mean with a ton of Javascript ?
> >
> > I just consider that a mess, not safe and a nightmare to get it
working on
> > both IE and Netscape.
>
> Ton of Javascript?  Heck no.  You need a little bit to handle things
like
> lower to upper, but that's it.  My entire JavaScript, that handles
focus,
> cursor positioning, shift codes and so on, is 140 lines long, and in a
> standard .js file that is included by my pages.  That's certainly not
a ton.
>
> On the other hand, I don't support all features on Netscape, because
> Netscape doesn't yet fully support the Document Object Model.  Until
it
> does, there's no way to keep the JavaScript clean enough.
>
> Joe
>
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