Help! How to make navcond.js Netscape6 complient?

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Hello,

I doing a redesign on my site and found an excellent dhtml/javascript menubar/navigation bar that works great with IE5-5.5 and NS4.7 but as I just found out...isn't even visible on Netscape 6.

I have done a lot of work so I wouldn't want to redo all my work and I'm askin does anyone know how to make this thing working with NS6?

The script is http://www.brainjar.com's navcond.js and is used for example here:

http://www.steepstone.com/

I can mail the script here or directly to anyone who thinks he/she can help but it's also found here:
http://www.steepstone.com/scripts/meny.js

THANKS A LOT if you can help me (I know very little about JS or dhtml)

ps. http://www.brainjar.com is under reconstruction so they aren't helping at the moment

 

[Grant]

I have messed around with the menu system for a while and so far I have not found any way to make it work with NS6. Basically what I am going to do is use their current menu system (the one that is IE 5.5 and NS 6 compatible) along with the old one (the one you are using). I know it is a pain to do, but it is the only solution I have come up with so far. If anybody can get brainjars old javascript menu working on NS6, please let use know.

I uploaded the javascript files. You can get them here:

http://www.gwscripts.com/navbar.txt
http://www.gwscripts.com/dhtmllib.txt

I just renamed them to .txt files.

Thanks.

 

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Thanks!

But are you sure that the scripts you offered work on NS6?
Because they were dated Feb. 26th 2000 and Aug. 12th 2000 and the version I have is also dated 12th aug 2000:

*** navcond.js - Condensed version of dhtmllib.js and navbar.js. Copyright 2000 by Mike Hall. Web address: http://www.brainjar.com Last update: August 12, 2000. ***

It works on IE5.5 as I wrote...

Is it possible to copy/paste something from your script to my version to make it work on NS6?

(I wrote the whole menu to the navcon.js, so there's just a link on every html page to navcond.js...if this makes any difference)

Why was it so hard for Netscape people to make at least as good as browser as 4.7 was??? plus ns6 takes forever to start...

 

[Grant]

Originally posted by top
Thanks!

But are you sure that the scripts you offered work on NS6?
Because they were dated Feb. 26th 2000 and Aug. 12th 2000 and the version I have is also dated 12th aug 2000:

*** navcond.js - Condensed version of dhtmllib.js and navbar.js. Copyright 2000 by Mike Hall. Web address: http://www.brainjar.com Last update: August 12, 2000. ***

It works on IE5.5 as I wrote...

Is it possible to copy/paste something from your script to my version to make it work on NS6?

(I wrote the whole menu to the navcon.js, so there's just a link on every html page to navcond.js...if this makes any difference)

Why was it so hard for Netscape people to make at least as good as browser as 4.7 was??? plus ns6 takes forever to start...

No, I was not saying that those files were NS6 compatible. Because they are not. I was just posting those files for anybody else to help. They are easier to read then the condensed version.

To make it work on NS6 I am using browser detection. But I am doing the browser detection using a product of Zope (a programming language). So that is not really a good way to do it for most people. Basically I have two menus systems setup. The new one at brainjar and the old one at brainjar. If they have IE 5.5 or NS 6 then it will use the new one. Otherwise it will use the old one. But I would like to make the old one work with NS 6.

As for the reason why the menu doesn't work on NS 6 and does on NS 4.7. NS 6 is a whole lot closer to standards. It doesn't have the proprietary tags that NS 4.7 has. So it doesn't work when it comes across the same code.

 

[Cael]

It seems like I am having problem with XPCOM.dll file of N6. Hmmm... I downloaded twice and both have problems.

Can someone send me that file and let me replace the old one? I want NETSCAPE !!! No trojan please...

 

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Grant>>>>
I got a bit confused...

Originally posted by Grant

To make it work on NS6 I am using browser detection. But I am doing the browser detection using a product of Zope (a programming language). So that is not really a good way to do it for most people. Basically I have two menus systems setup. The new one at brainjar and the old one at brainjar. If they have IE 5.5 or NS 6 then it will use the new one. Otherwise it will use the old one. But I would like to make the old one work with NS 6.

So there is a brainjar menu that works on NS6? I haven't found it. Could I look at the site where you are using it or can you tell me where can I get it?

Other than this I really like this script. It's just what I needed. Maybe I will create a different sitemap kind of thing for those who do not see the menubar.

 

[Grant]

Originally posted by top

So there is a brainjar menu that works on NS6? I haven't found it. Could I look at the site where you are using it or can you tell me where can I get it?

Yes, there is a new menu at their site. Just goto it. It isn't hard to miss. It is the one at the top when you first goto http://www.brainjar.com. However it will only work in IE 5.5 and NS 6. It will not work in anything before that. That is why I am doing the browswer detection.

I am using their menu system at http://sin.ou.edu. That is just the old brainjar one that doesn't work in NS 6. We are still testing things out and trying to modify the new menu before things go up. But you can see what we have so far at https://sin.ou.edu/index2_html. That is where we are doing the browser detection. Please note that we have modified brainjars new menu to do the drop down thing automatically when the mouse scrolls over, like their old menu. The new one requires you to click on it before the menu goes down. I am still planning on working on it a whole lot more. I am going to see if I can get their old one to work with NS 6. If I get it to work, I will let you know.

 

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Originally posted by Grant
Yes, there is a new menu at their site. Just goto it. It isn't hard to miss. It is the one at the top when you first goto http://www.brainjar.com. However it will only work in IE 5.5 and NS 6. It will not work in anything before that. That is why I am doing the browswer detection.

Heh.. I noticed that but it looked so different (the drop down etc.) that I didn't even think about it as the same kind.

I am using their menu system at http://sin.ou.edu. That is just the old brainjar one that doesn't work in NS 6. We are still testing things out and trying to modify the new menu before things go up. But you can see what we have so far at https://sin.ou.edu/index2_html. That is where we are doing the browser detection. Please note that we have modified brainjars new menu to do the drop down thing automatically when the mouse scrolls over, like their old menu. The new one requires you to click on it before the menu goes down. I am still planning on working on it a whole lot more. I am going to see if I can get their old one to work with NS 6. If I get it to work, I will let you know.

I will look your site. Thanks. I'm reading this board regularly so if you come up with the solution it would be great if you'd posted it here.

 

[Grant]

Originally posted by top
Heh.. I noticed that but it looked so different (the drop down etc.) that I didn't even think about it as the same kind.
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Yeah, it is the same. It just is the new simplified version. It takes a whole lot less code to accomplish the same thing.

I will look your site. Thanks. I'm reading this board regularly so if you come up with the solution it would be great if you'd posted it here.

Yeah, if I figure out how to make the old one work on NS6 I will let you know. I will either post it here, or just email you.

 

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Originally posted by Grant
Yeah, if I figure out how to make the old one work on NS6 I will let you know. I will either post it here, or just email you.

OK. I noticed that I had my old email address here so I updated it to the new one:
topp@sunpoint.net