Browser Compatiblity Checking

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The latest build of this product (v5.2.0) was released 23 years ago, which was before this thread was created.
Posted 23 years ago by Brian M. Reisman - Washington
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One of the most daunting challenges for HTML developers specifically when writing DOM/DHTML is use functionality and objects that will work in their target environment. A great feature would be to include a Compatibility Check that would produce a list of which browsers (IE & Netscape and their versions) will have problems with certain code that you may have written:

For example:
'document.layers' on line 17: not supported in IE v3+;

'split(myVar)' on line 23: not supported in Netscape v2.0

NetObjects ScriptBuilder has this feature; it works well, they of course haven't updated their code in a few years (slight exaggeration). Therefore it only will check for compatibility in NS4 and IE4 and below.

With or without this feature, there is no product available that compares with Spider Writer! Keep up the fantastic work!

[ 08-14-2001: Message edited by: Brian M. Reisman ]

Brian M. Reisman, MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE, MCT, CNA