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Re: Problems with IE3

#19073
From: Exeter
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:00
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Thanks, I was afraid of that.

Rich Wilkman wrote:
> 
> Exeter:
> 
> Technically you aren't doing anything wrong, but you should never
> count on null layout working everywhere (no matter what the books
> say).  Take the time to make it a GridBag or something real and you
> should get better behaviour.
> 
> You can't override core language classes in the browser -- that would
> make it really easy for Applets to be desctructive.  You can't make
> old technology forwards compatible, either.  IE3 users can update the
> VM with a simple download and get a bunch of bug fixes and still have
> the crummy IE 3.x interface if they want.  IE 3.x was co-located in
> time with beta and early 1.0 Java and works as well as the technology
> at the time.
> 
> Time to stick a "best viewed with" label on your web pages that links
> back to IE and MS.
> 
> -Rich
> 
> Exeter wrote:
> >
> > I am so pissed.  I built a 1.0 compliant JAVA app and everything runs
> > great in Netscape(all ver) and IE4, but in IE3 the layout is all wrong.
> >
> > I am using a null Layout and here is the code for a List and a Choice:
> >
> > lbItems = new List();
> > lbItems.reshape(10, 25, 580, 210);
> >
> > cbChoice = new Choice();
> >         cbChoice.addItem("<CHOICE>");
> >           try {
> >                 cbChoice.select(0);
> >               }
> >               catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { }
> >         cbChoice.reshape(285,325,75,20);
> >
> > plUserOnlineOrder.add(lbItems);
> > plUserOnlineOrder.add(cbChoice);
> >
> > Now, is there something that I am doing wrong?
> >
> > If not, can I MAKE IE# download my classes and override it's own?
> >
> > Please Help!!!
> >
> > Exeter
> 
> --
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Rich Wilkman
> Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
> Borland JBuilder Team
> 
> If you see something that looks like an opinion up there,
> it's mine and mine alone.
> 
> Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will
> be ignored.  If I have time, I'll respond, but you  have
> a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Date: 1998/03/12
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