Netscape strikes again... help with image moving in NS and slideshow

[mplutodh1]

Help getting these darn pages to work in netscape (netscrape)? I am not good with netscape at all!

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~pludem/cs202/project2003/page4.html
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~pludem/cs202/project2003/intro.htm


Thanks!

[Vladdy]

I think a better way of expressing yourself would be:
"I'm not good, period"
IE allows you to write bad code, Gecko does not. Blaming your incompetence on the browser, won't get you anywhere. Start with reading DOM documentation at www.w3c.org and learn to access the document elements in compliant manner.

[mplutodh1]

Ok first off, I would rather not be insulted while asking for help. There is no reason for it, its just flat out rude.

Second of all, I am a newbie... and I honestly am TRYING my hardest to learn this stuff... now maybe you are a genious and pick it up fast.. I dont, if I know of a way to get something to work, I do it, or if someone helps me... I use it, but the fact of the matter is that because I do not know EVERY detail, nor understand a lot of it, I am stuck with asking for help.

I would appreciate not being insulted on this board everytime I ask for help, I am a rather light hearted person and joke around, my blaming it on netscape was more just me making SOME fun out of the situation, I understand IE allows for errors... but honestly, to a newbie, Netscape is purely a frustration.

[liorean]

What browser do you mean by "netscape" really? Nn4, nn6 or nn6.1+?
Nn4 is a dinosaur that is really a pain to code for. Nn6 is better but far buggier than any other browser you will ever see released as a public release. NN6.1+ browsers are really good and certainly not hard to code for. They are also the only Netscape browsers that really counts today. (The number of users of nn6+ is far less than the number of users of other Gecko based browsers such as Mozilla, Phoenix/Mozilla Firebird, Camino, Galeon)

In fact, today ie5 and ie5.5w are the browsers that developers mostly curse over. They are old relics, almost from the nn4 days.


As for the error, here's the error code mozilla produces:Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIDOMWindowInternal.forward]" nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame :: <unknown filename> :: onclick :: line 0" data: no]

The normal debugging procedure here would be to insert alerts at each step that tells you exactly what is going on.

[mplutodh1]

Yeah I believe it has something to do with my call to the external intro.js file, but I cant see why it wouldnt work. And I am refering to NS4, unfortunatley that is what Netscape browser is installed on most computers no campus here.

[liorean]

That bug was from Mozilla, in other words the browser that nn6+ is built on. It doesn't work there either. (Mozilla is both the most standards compliant and the most advanced browser out there...)

I'd suggest you have a look at the information available at each step of running the code, to see where something goes wrong.