IE vs Netscape

Anon

hi ,
I am working on a telecom problem related to the properties of IE and netscape....the problem is that :we have a product whose webpage when opened in netscape and resized goes to the default i.e. blank.html and the data is lost .one would have to redo the whole thing.The case is not so for IE .Can u help me with some code which can take care that whenever the page is resized the previous records are retrieved and no data is lost.
thanx and regards,
Sujoy

Anon

look in your code - you obviously have a onresize="function()" happening somewhere forcing a page refresh I think this is where your problem will lie?

Anon

When netscape resizes it refreshes.
Try it when dragging the sizes it will flicker, refreshing.

[deleted]

No fp, he does not have an "onresize=" in his code.
If he did, the reload would also happen in IE.

Netscape "unfortunately" always does a reload when you resize the window. It just does.

What could help (never tried) is to tell netscape to cache the page, using the opposite of the infamous "nocache".

kparker

But if this really is the explanation, it should be possible to make the same thing happen in IE by pressing the Refresh button there. Either way, it seems to me, the real answer is to figure out why repeating the page load doesn't just give the same resulting html each time.

[deleted]

He never said IE doesn't have the problem when a reload is forced, only that things go belly-up when netscape does a refresh when the window is resized.

But you are right, the next step is to change the code to remember the state it was in before the reload, probably using cookies or sessions.

btw, does the site use frames at all?

Anon

Is it not possible to open the page in a non resizable console window. If it had the buttons and location at the top it would look like a normal window but just be unresizable.

[deleted]

That would work, but you'd allways have to open a new window, and what if the window size you decide on is too big for your customers?

Anon

Hi all,
Can u suggest how to construct a cookie or a session to make the following:
when on resizing netscape refreshes the page it should not go to blank.html but to the latest visited page
thanx and regards,
Sujoy

[deleted]

Do you use any frames?

Anon

yes we do use frames

Anon

The onresize fix you mentioned is a well-known bug fix for Netscape 4.x. The browser dumps all CSS properties when the window is resized without this bit of JavaScript, which can be found at webmonkey.com.

Unfortunately, I'm having the same problem with both Netscape 4.77 and Netscape 6.2, and this time the bug fix has absolutely no effect in either version. (The page works okay in Netscape 7 PR1 for some reason, though.) A page will start to load correctly in these two versions, then suddenly revert to a plain, white, unstyled version of the HTML. This is all the more ci\onfusing because I've had similar layouts work fine in v6.2 as-is, and the bug fix has always worked in 4.77 as well. I'm guessing that the fact my current layout is PHP-generated rather than static HTML has something to do with it. I've heard of problems with PHP in Netscape before, but I can't find any concrete explanation for the rendering errors.

Anyone care to take a stab at this one?

Anon

It just so happens that I have a no-cache meta tag in my document (see my other post below). I'll try removing it and see what happens.

Anon

Sessions and cookies aren't the answer. Get the Netscape CSS resize fix from webmonkey.com and try that first.

Anon

I removed the no-cache tag, but it still does the same thing in Netscape 6.2. I'm not even going to bother with the Netscape 4.x JavaScript fix this time. That piece of crap is over 5 years old anyway - i.e., "obsolete". It's not my problem if a few fringe users can't view my pages as intended. Most users, and especially business users (my target audience), use MSIE 5 or higher. This problem will hopefully be a thing of the past when the full version of Netscape 7 is released.