xbrowser-list - The Netscape 6 Cross Browser Web Development Newsletter
2002 Issue #1 (distributed February)


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Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps
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Are your page designs suddenly plagued by mysterious gaps beneath 
images inside tables in Netscape 6.x and Mozilla? Do these gaps appear 
and disappear depending on your page's document type? We feel your 
frustration, but try to make up for it with a thorough explanation 
of why this happens, and give you ways to work around this surprising 
effect of Mozilla's CSS implementation.
   http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/img-table/


Updating Existing DHTML Scripts With xbStyle API
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xbStyle is our API that helps developers to write Cross Browser DHTML 
pages. This article is a real case describing how xbStyle was used to 
update an Expand-Collapsible DHTML script.

http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/updating-expcol-xbstyle/


xbTreeWidgetStatic - a Flexible, Powerful Tree Widget
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xbTreeWidgetStatic is an Object Oriented API that can be used to 
create DHTML Tree Widgets and serves as a highly effective replacement 
for xbCollapsibleLists. xbTreeWidgetStatic is intended to fully support 
DHTML for Netscape 6/Gecko and Internet Explorer 5 and up while 
providing a simple hierarchical display for downlevel browsers 
such as Netscape Navigator 4 and Opera 5/6.
   http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/api/xbTreeWidgetStatic/


Rich Doughty's DOM 2 Sidebar Tab
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Place the DOM 2 References at your fingertips with the Rich Doughty's 
DOM 2 Sidebar tab. Rich created this wonderful XML+XSLT based sidebar 
tab and has graciously agreed to allow us to host it on DevEdge. 
Now you can quickly navigate three key Web standards: HTML 4.01, 
CSS2, and DOM 2!
   http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/sidebar/


Giving 'cursor' a Hand
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Netscape 6 and Mozilla support 'cursor' quite nicely, but that's not 
true of some other browsers. Happily, there's a fix. Find out how to 
get a 'hand' from multiple browsers when you use this property.
   http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/cursor/


Updated APIs and Tools
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Bug fixes and updates for xbDOM, xbStyle, and xbCollapsibleLists.  
The licensing of our scripts has also been updated to explicitly 
allow redistribution.
   http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/api/


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Xbrowser Quick Tips - a Newsletter Exclusive!
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As Netscape/Mozilla works on embedding browsers into various clients, 
replace any instances of "Netscape6" with "Gecko" to ensure your site 
appears correctly regardless of the Gecko-based user agent string.

if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Gecko") != -1) ||
 (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Unix") != -1)) {
   is4 = false;
}

[see 
http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/find-gecko/ 
for more information and ideas]

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NEW TO X-BROWSER? CHECK OUT THESE POPULAR RESOURCES
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* The Netscape 6/Mozilla quick reference guide gives solutions to 
common web page problems: 
http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/fep/

* Site problems? Diagnose your page code with the DevEdge Web 
Tune-Up: 
http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/tools/tune-up/


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