Re: Spell Guide Beta-0
 

That has nothing to do with the XSLTProcessor or Mozilla, but that is coming directly from the standard for DOM. You *always* have to import your nodes into the document first with DOM if you want to use them. Even though Mozilla isn't doing what you want, they're doing it very correctly here.

Re: Spell Guide Beta-0
 

i.e. 7 or whatever the newest version is. running xp.

Re: Spell Guide Beta-0
 

Can you post that as a stand alone executable that we could download to our hard drive??? This looks like a really neat tool that we could use.

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Good to know! I guess Opera automagically imported it in the replaceChild function.

I'm not necessarily as enthusiastic about the way ff did this at you are, but let's leave it at that http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif When I do things right, they seem to work in both Opera and Firefox.

Not so much for IE though I'm afraid jimkehn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif As I mentioned before, I may rewrite the page to add support for all kinds of clients, but right now I'll continue on this track and try to keep supporting Firefox as well as Opera.

Next up I'll try to add some handling of the national spells, they are just mixed in with all the others right now which is quite annoying.

That would indeed be a neat tool to have as a standalone, but quite a different beast from a web interface. Not on my roadmap I'm afraid.

Re: Spell Guide Beta-0
 

I'm not enthusiastic about it, but as you confirm yourself, what Firefox does is strictly adhering to the standards while Opera does a little extra to fix possibly corrupt code. That's bad, though, because then people will stick to writing corrupt code. Which will then prolly only work in Opera. Thank god for standards! Without them you'd have to do exceptions for every browser, operating system, day of the week and lunar phase in your code. Just like some years back when Microsoft and Netscape battled against each other who could invent the best new tags for HTML. No thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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That is because the code requires that the browser has support for the XSLTProcessor. KHTML, which is being used by Konqueror and Safari, does not. I think that support for MSIE can be added quite easily by adding the following code snippet from the XMLHttpRequest Wikipedia page: <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>/**
* Bridge XMLHTTP to XMLHttpRequest in pre-7.0 Internet Explorers
*/
if( typeof XMLHttpRequest == "undefined" ) XMLHttpRequest = function()
{
try{ return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0") }catch(e){}
try{ return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0") }catch(e){}
try{ return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP") }catch(e){}
try{ return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") }catch(e){}
throw new Error("This browser does not support XMLHttpRequest or XMLHTTP.")
};</pre><hr />I didn't get to test it, though.

Unless KHTML implements XSLTProcessor support, this page won't work for Konqueror and Safari. But in case Snoddasmannen wants to add support for them, I think that a cross-browser wrapper library named Sarissa takes care to add just this functionality for browsers.

Re: Spell Guide Beta-0
 

lch, does IE really have XSLTProcessor, or some ActiveX equivalent? If not it will take more than wrapping around XHR :/

Anyway, if I'm going to spend some time making this thing work for everybody then I think I might as well just move all the logic to the server side, with a simple form interface. Not many will be able to tell the difference, and even fewer care about it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Plus I really dislike browser specific workarounds ... I'm happy that this code is running in both Opera and FF without any iffery.

But instead of working on the spell guide, I spent time rewriting my map generator instead. Now with fractals http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif If it gets good, I'll release the source.

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That's a function of what language your software is in. He has it showing TRUE/FALSE.

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I honestly have no idea about MSIE, I'm on Linux. Maybe the Microsoft FAQ can help you on that. Here's a code listing how to do the same transformation on both the Gecko engine and Internet Explorer: http://michael-steiner.net/JavaScript_XSLT.php

For perfect wrapping in any JavaScript browser, I guess you should use Sarissa like I wrote before.

Hurry up then! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Re: Spell Guide Beta-0
 

Actually, it's "malus". And it's Latin.