Netscape 4.79 load and read xml

[rogerowen333]

Is there a way to load and read xml files using Javascript in Netscape
4.79?

[Martin Honnen]

ro**********@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a way to load and read xml files using Javascript in Netscape
4.79?

Not really, unless you want to try your luck with LiveConnect scripting
Java with JavaScript to fetch the XML.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[dd]

ro**********@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a way to load and read xml files using
Javascript in Netscape 4.79?

I don't know the answer, but I can offer this info
to you:

I think a lot of sites have officially given up on NS4
now. I know I spent many a disgruntled hour having
to support it a few years back, now we just don't
support them. Right at the very beginning, we make
one quick check. If it's NS4, they get alt content. We
don't go into any of our JS files (which NS4 would
cry about when it sees things like try/catch). If you
look at any of the browser market share statistics,
you see that NS4.x is < 0.1% (that's less than 1 in
10,000 people hitting that site with NS4). I think most
people still using NS4 are QA departments testing
that it still looks OK ;-)

You have to remember, when you're feeling some
sympathy for the NS4 user, is that the Internet is
already totally full of sites that make no attempt at
all to care how it looks for them. If you use NS4,
you expect a terrible surfing experience by now.

You just need to look at most JavaScript sites these
days. Nobody ever tries the alternate methods of
getting a handle to an object, now it's just one line
of code : document.getElementById.

[VK]

ro**********@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a way to load and read xml files using Javascript in Netscape
4.79?

That was already commented by others from the practical pint of view.
As a purely technical aspect NN 4.x DOM model was a "one way ticket":
one could generate rather complex content for frames and (i)layers but
one couldn't read the resulting fragments out of it. So if I would be
paid again for NN 4.x solutions :-) the only way as I see it is to use
<layerto retrieve HTML docs with onload JavaScript in them, something
like:

<layer id="DataLoader" width="110" height="110" src="blank.html"
clip="0,0,110,110"></layer>
<nolayer><iframe name="DataLoader" width="110" height="110"
src="blank.html"></iframe></nolayer>

and then document.layers['DataLoader'].src = 'RPC.cgi'; // or so