92725 - dynamicdrive.com - Tracking bug for Sites/Scripts

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This bug will be used as a tracking bug for Sites/Scripts from DynamicDrive.com

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contacted 8/28/01. 

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Dynamic Drive reports that the following scripts are their top 10 scripts that
do not support Mozilla and are not planned for updating anytime soon.

If we can get volunteers to work on updating these scripts, we can help the
users of DynamicDrive to support Mozilla. If you are interested in helping port
these scripts please visit irc://irc.mozilla.org/evangelism/ and ask for me (bc).

Top Navigational Bar II
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/topnavbar.htm

Mike's DHTML scroller
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/mikescroll.htm

Pausing up-down message scroller
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/crosstick.htm

Dynamic Fader
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/fader.htm

Dynamic Progress Bar
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/dhtmlprogress.htm

DHTML Calculator
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/cal.htm

Scrolling Text Link/Image Map Tooltip Script
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/scrolltool.htm

Typing Text Script
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex10/text5.htm

Up-down Image Slideshow Script
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/updownslide.htm

Left-Right Image Slideshow Script
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/leftrightslide2.htm

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

follow up in jan

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> authors

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

They will never update these old scripts and it is too much work for us to do
so. -> wont fix them all.

I will keep this open to handle trying to get them to support us with new content.

Comment 7

[rubydoo123]

removing myself from the cc list

Comment 8

[Mat]

I can fix at least those easily : 
 - Top Navigational Bar II
 - Pausing up-down message scroller
 - Mike's DHTML scroller

And probably this one too :
 - Typing Text Script

just ask. :)

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Mat, please do

Comment 10

[Mat]

I will begin as soon as I can :)

Comment 11

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

Attachment: Text Typing Script Revisited

This version was tested in IE5.5, Moz 0.9.9 and it works in both.
It use some ugly hacks, like for instance the innerHTML call that I should not
make since I can do this dom-way. Im working on it but I wanted this version to
be "released" first.

Comment 12

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

mmm looking at http://bclary.com/dynamicdrive/, it seem that the 3 other scripts
I had planed to work on are already fixed. what should I do ?

Comment 13

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Some of them use the xbStyle apis and require a fairly large DL. If you have a
better solution, I will post it along with the other dynamicdrive scripts on
bclary.com and let people use them as well. I get a 'fair' amount of traffic
from dynamicdrive.com and if you add more scripts, they will be well received.

Comment 14

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

OK.
Ill do the job. This is gonna take some time however... :|

BTW: my fix for the text typing script does not work in ns62. can anybody check
why ? I can easily make it work by doing things differently but id like to know
why its not working...

Comment 15

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

hum looking at http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/menubar/, it seems that mike hall
have  upgraded his menu script... 

Comment 16

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

ah, but the new menu is standards based only i think and is not backward
compatible with respect to supporting nav4 and ie4. It is a good menu, but does
not serve as a drop in replacement for his older menu. Mike has told me he has
no interest in supporting nav4 or ie4 and only develops standards based
solutions now. That is the way to go as soon as we can convince people to a) use
modern browsers and b) use standards based scripts. Unfortunately we aren't
there yet. Not all sites are willing to lose traffic from nav4 or ie4 yet.

Comment 17

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

*sigh* :)
Anyway, I did start to work on dhtmllib.js, so I'd better finish :)
Meanwhile, can someone review my Text Typing Script and send it to dynamicdrive ?

Comment 18

[Mike Palumbo]

Attachment: Mozilla/NS6/Gecko port of the Dynamic Drive DHTML Progress Bar

I completed a cross-browser port of the DHTML progress bar, so now the same
script works in NS4, NS6/Mozilla, and IE.  I'll take care of the rest of the
scripts ASAP.

Comment 19

[Mike Palumbo]

Attachment: Mozilla/NS6/Gecko Port of Dynamic Drive DHTML Calculator

I haven't an old copy of IE4 to test, but this works fine in 5.0 and up.  (If
anyone has IE4 and can test it out, please do!)

Anyway, this now works in NS6/Mozilla.	It actually performs better in Moz than
IE! :)
Also, note that IE's implementation of CSS for :hover is broken.  I had to use
onmouseover & onmouseout IE-specific code to make the style changes.

Comment 20

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Mike,

I get tons of Error: event.srcElement has no properties on the calculator. You
still have things like: onMouseout="event.srcElement.style.color='white'" which
are IE only. Needs Work.

Bob

Comment 21

[Mike Palumbo]

Attachment: Mozilla/NS6/Gecko Port of Dynamic Drive DHTML Calculator

Whoops, sorry about that.  I threw the IE-mouseovers back in at the last
minute, without checking the JS Console.  They are now in an IE-specific
function, and don't cause any errors on the console.

Comment 22

[Mike Palumbo]

Attachment: Mozilla/NS6/Gecko Port of Dynamic Drive Scrolling Text Tooltip Script

This is a port of the popular scrolling tooltip script on Dynamic Drive.  This
script now works in NS4, IE, and Mozilla/NS6/Gecko.

The function I wrote would probably be able to replace the Marquee tag call in
the IE portion of this script; if the forces that be want me to do this, I will
be more than happy too.  Also, let me know if you find any areas where the code
can be cleaned up.

Comment 23

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Attachment: DOM *only* compliant snow script

I ran into some heavy problems with the snow script from :
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex3/snow.htm and discovered that it
wasn't HTML 4.0.1 compliant. I threw all NS 4 and IE 4 code out the window,
corrected the errors, moved the code into the <head>-section and made it
require a <body onload="snow()">

Comment 24

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 25

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

reset milestones as irrelevant to tracking bugs.

Comment 26

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Not relevant anymore.