Ben C Smith

I have just blogged about a couple of pages on my site. One of them is an interface page that lets you select which two Testimonium witnesses to set side by side for comparison or contrast.

I love JavaScript.

Ben.

Rick Sumner

In Firefox (Ubuntu), the interface page doesn't work, though I suppose that could be something I've screwed with at some point but shouldn't have.

ETA
It doesn't work in Epiphany, Opera or Konqueror either. Oh Ben, please tell me you haven't committed the most egregious of sins--creating a page that only works in IE!

And here I thought you were cool

spin

It didn't work in my Firefox (Windows) either.


spin

Ben C Smith

Yes, apparently I did just that.

I have tracked the problem (so far as Firefox is concerned, at any rate) to my use of the innerHTML property. True, this property has been deprecated in the standards, but Firefox was supposed to support it anyway.

Let me add here and now that deprecating the incredibly useful property innerHTML is just evil. Take a look at the kind of thing you have to do without it:

function dynamiccontentNS6(elementid,content){
if (document.getElementById && !document.all){
rng = document.createRange();
el = document.getElementById(elementid);
rng.setStartBefore(el);
htmlFrag = rng.createContextualFragment(content);
while (el.hasChildNodes())
el.removeChild(el.lastChild);
el.appendChild(htmlFrag);
}
}

That is ugly and ungainly compared to:

document.getElementById('elementid').innerHTML= content;

This probably says a lot more about what you regard as cool than about how cool I may or may not be.

Give me a bit to change the page around, then it should all work fine in Firefox and Mozilla. Not sure about Opera and the other browsers, since I do not have them installed on my system.

Ben.

ETA: My mistake again. Firefox does still support the innerHTML property. The problem must have been the way I constructed my if statement to account for browsers that still use document.all. At any rate, I can still fix it.

Amaleq13

He certainly must have missed your use of a quote from The X-Files!

Ben C Smith

I admit, I love that show. Which may seem odd considering that I am not even remotely an adherent to conspiracy theories, unidentified flying object sightings, or cryptozoology.

Ben.

Ben C Smith

Okay, the page is working for me in Firefox now. I would certainly appreciate anyone telling me how it is acting in Opera, Safari, or other browsers.

My bad for not testing it out in browsers other than IE before uploading it.

Ben.

Rick Sumner

Works like a charm in Epiphany and Opera. Great resource, thanks for this

Geek is in, baby. Geek is in.

Ben C Smith

Excellent. Thanks for checking.

No problem.

Ben.